During the 1991 August Coup in Russia, the ballet Swan Lake played on a loop on state TV. The unusual broadcast alerted Soviet citizens that something was catastrophically wrong in Moscow. On Friday a ...

Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov died on Saturday after falling from the fifth floor of a building. The preliminary cause of death was labeled as an accident, with Russian authorities launching ...

Investigators in Russia are looking into the death of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg after he fell from an apartment block balcony and ...

Police in Russia are investigating after renowned Russian ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov reportedly fell to his death over the weekend. He was 39. Shklyarov was a star dancer at the Mariinsky, the ...

For decades now, Russians have known the drill. When there's bad news brewing, such as the death of a leader, or a convulsive event, such as the Chernobyl disaster, State TV switches its programming ...

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