Find out more about the Russian circus performers in Vegas on Kim Palchikoff's blog, http://rbth.ru/blogs/circus. The collapse of the Soviet Union left thousands of ...

A Soviet husband-and-wife high-wire team slipped away from the Moscow Circus road show in Buenos Aires Wednesday night and defected to the United States. ”We want to be, above all, free citizens of ...

Freelance writer and avid adventure-seeker Darmon Richter is well-versed in the art of "urban exploration," or the practice of exploring "derelict, closed and normally inaccessible built environments" ...

Three years ago, as the era of perestroika was beginning, rock producer Steve Leber went to the Soviet Union to look at Soviet rock acts. The one-time manager of rock acts such as Aerosmith, AC/DC and ...

A terrified performing bear attacked a circus ringmaster in front of a large crowd of children and their parents. The brown bear suddenly became agitated before going into the ring to show its tricks ...

A 125-member Soviet circus on a two-year goodwill tour of the United States is stranded in Georgia and its animals are stuck in New Jersey because it has run out of money. The Great Circus Bim Bom, ...

Proud of their tractors and power plants, Russians are even more proud of their schools. Their claims are that illiteracy has all but vanished; that there is education for everyone, from ...

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The collapse of the Soviet Union left thousands of elite circus performers out of a job, so where else would they go, but Vegas? Circus Soviet GLYNN WASHINGTON, HOST: On SNAP JUDGMENT right here, from ...