NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Russia looks ready to bring back the Soviet national anthem - without the references to Lenin and the indestructible union of Soviet republics, of course ...

The Russian State Duma has overwhelmingly approved reinstating the Stalin-era national anthem as the country's official song -- just nine years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and seven years ...

The former Soviet satellite nation of Georgia has had four national anthems in the past 14 years. Practically no one liked, or even knew, the words to the last anthem, which was hard to memorize. But ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin wrapped up a thorny debate over Russia’s national symbols--and its post-Communist identity--by signing a package of laws Tuesday resurrecting the melody of the ...

Russian lawmakers today overwhelmingly approved the Soviet anthem as Russia's national hymn -- a move praised by some as a gesture of reconciliation and denounced by others as a symbolic approval of ...

Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems and also persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine, has died. He was 96. Mikhalkov, who ...

LAUSANNE, SwitzerlandLAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russian gold medalists at the Tokyo Olympics are set to hear music by Tchaikovsky as the replacement for their national anthem, which has been banned as ...