Take New York’s B train south to the end of the line and you’ll step into the post-Soviet enclave Brighton Beach, whose ...

The eccentric, oceanside South Brooklyn neighborhoods play starring ... "You can get a bowl of borscht and you feel like you could be in Moscow," said Brodar, who also has a small role in the ...

A televised 1972 match between Spassky and Fischer, at the height of the Cold War, became an international sensation and was ...

Last year, Western audiences fell in love with him as a tight-lipped but sentimental mafia errand boy in “Anora,” a Brooklyn-based ... international stars. In Moscow, where some filmmakers ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, has died in Moscow. He was 88. The ...

MOSCOW — Boris Spassky ... the then-29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, New York, brought the U.S. its first world chess title. Fischer, known to be testy and difficult, died in 2008.