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.