The wife of a Russian poet jailed for seven years for reciting anti-war verses said she was afraid he could be killed in prison after he was sexually assaulted with a dumbbell during his arrest.

Russian poet Lev Rubinstein, a key figure in the Soviet underground literary scene and a critic of President Vladimir Putin, has died six days after being hit by a car in Moscow, his daughter ...

Boris Khersonsky is Ukraine’s most celebrated Russian-language poet. Born in Chernivtsi into a Jewish family in 1950, he studied medicine in Ivano-Frankivsk and Odesa. Initially working as a ...

(JTA) — Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, best known for his poem commemorating the slaughter of Jews by the Nazis at the Ukrainian ravine known as Babi Yar, has died at 84. Yevtushenko died ...

This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a ...

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MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Prominent Soviet era dissident, poet and mathematician Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, the son of famous Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, has died in the United States aged 91 ...

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BELGRADE, June 6 /TASS/. A monument to 19th-century Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was unveiled in Zagreb, Croatia, on the day of Pushkin’s birth on Monday. The bronze bust of the Russian poet ...

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