MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin, widely criticized for reinstating the Soviet anthem as Russia's national hymn, has recruited a Soviet-era literary apparatchik to rewrite the lyrics. The choice of ...

Sergei Mikhalkov, an author favored by Stalin who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems, persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine and fathered two ...

Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems and also persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine, has died. He was 96. Mikhalkov, who ...

The former Soviet satellite nation of Georgia has had four national anthems in the past 14 years. Practically no one liked, or even knew, the words to the last anthem, which was hard to memorize. But ...

The new nationalistic Soviet anthem (TIME, Jan. 3) was widely played in the U.S. last week. No sooner had the music been published in the U.S. press than U.S. orchestra leaders fell all over ...

Kyrgyzstan has announced it will change its national anthem, saying the one it has is too Soviet. After Kyrgyzstan became independent following the fall of the USSR in 1991, it changed the lyrics of ...

A Metropolitan Opera singer received death threats after she was mistaken for another Chinese soprano who sang a Soviet Union anthem in the ruins of a Ukrainian theater where hundreds were killed by ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin wrapped up a thorny debate over Russia’s national symbols--and its post-Communist identity--by signing a package of laws Tuesday resurrecting the melody of the ...

It wasn’t tuneful, but it was memorable. I was chairing a conference about `Empire”‘ in Sweden and on the final evening I got bored with the official entertainment and suggested a sing-song. These are ...