Moscow, 8 December 2000 (RFE/RL) -- The Soviet Union's national anthem for almost 50 years, before being abolished by President Boris Yeltsin shortly after the collapse of communism, is poised to ...

M O S C O W, Dec. 26 -- The tune that Russians once sang in praise of the “unbreakable” Soviet Union is their anthem again, a decade after the union broke up. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

A Metropolitan Opera singer received death threats after she was mistaken for another Chinese soprano who sang a Soviet Union anthem in the ruins of a Ukrainian theater where hundreds were killed ...

"in any case, our parliamentary faction will vote against the anthem of the non-existing state," yavlinsky pledged, in reference to the soviet union which fell apart ten years ago. the current ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only President of the Soviet Union, has died ... including its national anthem. In the years that followed, Gorbachev would emerge in the West as a global figure ...

But he also precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, which Putin had called the ... in the air and a small band playing the Russian anthem, which uses the same melody as the Soviet anthem.

First off, it is widely known that the melody of the Village People original — and especially the Pet Shop Boys redux with its intro — were made to resemble the Soviet Union anthem (now the ...