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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new nationalistic Soviet anthem (TIME, Jan. 3) was widely played in the U.S. last week. No sooner had the music been published in the U.S. press than U.S. orchestra leaders fell all over ...

Ever since president Boris Yeltsin abolished the Soviet anthem seven years ago, Russia has been looking for a text to replace it. Now, some Russian politicians -- and not only communists -- are ...

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 ...

MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin, widely criticized for reinstating the Soviet anthem as Russia's national hymn, has recruited a Soviet-era literary apparatchik to rewrite the lyrics. The choice of ...

Can a song, a banner and a symbol keep Russians' minds off how tough their lives remain? Vladimir Putin has to hope so. Last week the Russian Parliament voted 381 to 51 to approve the president's ...

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 ...

A proposal to revert the country’s national anthem back to the Soviet one has hit a wrong note among many Armenians who wonder whether it should be among the first priorities taken up by the new ...