Several of the films on my best-of-the-year list, including “Last Air in Moscow,” are fundamentally timeless expressions and explorations of solidarity. They take us inside authoritarian crackdowns, ...

Ukrainian soldiers claw their way toward an abandoned one-street town, battling Russian artillery fire, snipers and aerial attacks, in this feat of documentary film-making and frontline reporting ...

Serio breaks down common tropes about the Russian mafia, such as the role of hitmen in "John Wick" (2014), starring Keanu Reeves; the relationship between the Russian mafia and the Italian Mafia in ...