Revisiting 'Back in the USSR', a forgotten solo album by former Beatles member Paul McCartney which was released exclusively in the Soviet Union back in 1988.

He was a Navy veteran, Fulbright Scholarship winner, and delegate from the State Department to the Soviet Union in 1958.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to counter what he says is the decadence of modern Western ...