Kirillov was Soviet TV's chief newsreader and announcer. With his trademark delivery - unhurried and calm - he informed viewers of the first sputnik in space, and delivered the communiqués of the ...

The Soviet television never broadcasted that telebridge. Live telebridges with the U.S. started only in 1986, when Gorbachev’s perestroika was on. US journalist Tucker’s interview with Lavrov ...

Russian-speaking fans of JRR Tolkien have been flocking to YouTube to watch a newly rediscovered Soviet TV version of The Lord of the Rings. The low-budget production ...

premiered on millions of television sets in the Soviet Union on Jan. 1, 1976, Igor Rogovyi was 9 and living in Odesa, Ukraine. “This movie is from the depths of my childhood,” Rogovyi said.