For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next. By Adam Nossiter A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday of heart failure at age 89, was a titan in Russian literature and politics of the 20th century. He survived the Stalinist purges, World War II, eight years in ...

Acclaimed Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote extensively about the gulag prison system and won the Nobel literature prize for his books on abuses in the Soviet Union, died Sunday at age ...

Editor's note: Russian novelist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born 90 years ago today, on December 11, 1918. The following appreciation was written for RFE/RL's Russian Service on the ...

Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and worked in the Vermont town of Cavendish from 1976 to 1994. Photo from the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center [C]AVENDISH — Search for the exiled Russian ...

Last night I read the sad news that Solzhenitsyn had passed away. Besides being a great writer and an important dissident against the Soviet government, Solzhenitsyn was an impeccable moral witness ...

Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn's latest book, Russia in Collapse, is given an initial print run of only 5,000, a measure of how little he interests his fellow countrymen; Solzhenitsyn has had ample ...