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 ...

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 ...

Three weeks into Russia’s war against Ukraine, the chorus and orchestra at Odesa’s opera house gathered outside the building to send a message to fellow Ukrainians, to the Russians and to the rest of ...

As Russian athletes prepare for the day when they again hoist Olympic medals to the sound of an unfamiliar anthem and a generic flag, they are calling on Katyusha to help assuage their loss. The ...

Reader in International Journalism, City St George's, University of London The Soviet anthem hailed the socialist union that it celebrated as “indestructible”. Yet 30 years ago this week, the then ...