Charlotte professor’s new book details Jewish music, survival during the Holocaust

Partisan Song” tells how a Jewish engineer from Ukraine became a guerilla war hero. His music will be heard for the first ...
The Moscow Times on MSN

Despite sanctions and boycotts, some Western musicians return to the stage in Russia

In the weeks after launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, President Vladimir Putin claimed that the West was trying to “cancel” Russia. Nearly four years later, a small but growing ...

Where is the threat from Russia and China in the arctic?

As Trump points to Russia and China near Greenland, experts say the biggest Russian and Chinese activity is elsewhere in the Arctic.
Columbia Daily Tribune

Mizzou music students take their new works to stages worldwide

Performances, premieres and major recognitions marked a global year for Mizzou’s New Music Initiative student composers and performers.
Psychology Today

The Tension Between Belonging and Becoming Captured in Music

From tradition to displacement, music carries memory and emotion across generations—often when language fails.
Opinion

We should still listen to Russian music – and there’s none greater than Shostakovich’s

That the current Russian leadership, and its lackeys, are pariahs does not – and should not – force us to reject Russia’s culture. In the Second World War, Beethoven and Brahms remained in British ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Italy’s Meloni Calls on Europe to Reach Out to Russia Over Peace

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said Europe should engage with Russia over Ukraine, a pivot in her foreign policy that aligns her with recent comments from French President Emmanuel Macron. “I think ...
The New York Times

Russia Says It Used Nuclear-Capable Missile to Strike Western Ukraine

The attack seemed intended to send a message to Europe as it strongly backs Kyiv in the peace talks. By Andrew E. Kramer and Cassandra Vinograd Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine The Russian Defense ...
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Ukraine strikes hard in Pokrovsk… Russia loses absolutely everything

Toward the end of 2025, Russia claimed it had finally captured Pokrovsk, calling it one of its biggest victories of the war. Ukraine quickly proved that claim was false. Fighting around the city ...
The Atlantic

The Hole in Trump’s Rationale for Acquiring Greenland

President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet have made a case for acquiring Greenland that’s so simple, even self-evident, it seems hard to refute: U.S. national-security interests in the Arctic ...
CNN

Russia says any foreign forces in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate targets’, after UK and France pledge troops

Russia doubled down on its longstanding position of declaring Western forces in Ukraine “legitimate targets” on Thursday, days after France and the UK pledged to send troops there in the event of a ...
TASS

EU demands that Serbia betray Russia in exchange for European integration — Vulin

BELGRADE, January 6. /TASS/. The European Union is demanding that Serbia betray Russia as a condition for continuing its European integration, while offering Belgrade no tangible benefits in return, ...