To the communists, he was an arch-villain: a defender of the oppressors, a class enemy. And for decades, that's the way films and textbooks portrayed Adm. Alexander Kolchak, a leader of the fight to ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's latest blockbuster film hopes to woo big foreign audiences with an epic tale of doomed love set amid the chaos of the Russian Civil War; its politics conveniently chime ...

In Siberia, it sometimes seems that the people are outnumbered by the ghosts. With fewer than seven people per square mile, this is a nearly vacant land. But the ghosts are everywhere, an inevitable ...

For Soviet authorities, a small uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean proved to be a real headache. It is hard to imagine any country naming a street, park, square or any other geographical landmark ...

Touted by its own marketing as Russia’s most expensive production ever (budget is alleged to have been around $20 million), war-film-cum-love-story “The Admiral” reps a staunchly old-fashioned epic, ...

MOSCOW (Commodity Online) : Attempts to rediscover Russia's lost treasure, the 'Tsarist gold' or 'Kolchak's gold', finally received a morale boost with positive signs from the Baikal exploration.

To the Communists, he was an archvillain: a defender of the oppressors, a class enemy. And for decades, that’s the way films and textbooks portrayed Adm. Alexander Kolchak, a leader of the fight to ...

Five years in the making, historical epic “Admiral” — the story of World War I Russian navy Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who tried to save the country from Bolshevism by heading an anti-Communist “White ...

Russian authorities say a mini-submarine plumbing the depths of Lake Baikal has found several shiny metal objects that could be evidence of the legendary Czarist gold lost nearly a century ago during ...