Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young futurist had ...

On Wednesday, the Stanford Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures hosted a colloquium featuring Stuart H. Goldberg, who discussed the process of poets signaling, and readers interpreting, the ...

His poems were enjoyed by all Soviet children. Marshak's poetry for children is a world of goodness, fun, fairy tales, ...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes the US will "stand strong" in the face of Russian demands to lift sanctions as a condition for a ceasefire in the Black Sea. Moscow said a ...

A convicted drug dealer claims that being deported would damage his career as a poet. Cocaine dealer Evan Holmes, who has 13 convictions for 22 offences, has argued that being sent back to Jamaica ...

LONDON-For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the signing of the first partial ceasefire agreement between his country and Ukraine could not have been better timed. The terms of the agreement are ...

The Engels base in Saratov region is used by Russian strategic bombers. LONDON -- Russian authorities reported a "massive" Ukrainian drone attack on the Engels airbase in Saratov Oblast overnight ...

Barnes and Marc Santora Julian E. Barnes reported from Washington, and Marc Santora from Kyiv, Ukraine An analysis made this week of Russian attitudes toward a possible cease-fire with Ukraine ...

Russia's defence ministry said air defences had shot down 132 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions. Sign up here. Other verified videos showed a giant plume of smoke rising into the dawn sky and ...

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...