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'Star City': Release date & how to watch Apple TV's superb Soviet space series

The article discusses the release date and viewing options for the Apple TV series "Star City", which is set to launch on May 29, 2026. The series is a Soviet space-themed show that will be available on Apple TV.

'For All Mankind' spin-off 'Star City' will make you want to know more about the Soviet space program

Echoes of the Red Terror: Remembering victims of political repression and famine in Kazakhstan

Every year on 31 May, Kazakhstan commemorates the millions who perished during the Soviet-era famine and political repression. People in Kazakhstan remember the millions killed in the famine and political persecutions of the early Soviet era with a solemn ceremony on 31 May. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during a wreath-laying ceremony, highlighted that the losses the nation sustained in the 20th century should not be forgotten.

Part boat, part plane, part sci-fi: China debuts flying watercraft

Part boat, part plane, part sci-fi: China debuts flying watercraft Chinese company Navee completes the maiden flight of a consumer-focused craft that glides above the water on a cushion of air The Soviet “sea monster” is back – and this time it’s for sale. A Chinese company has completed the maiden flight of a passenger craft that skims just above the water’s surface using ground-effect technology, reviving a concept once associated with the Soviet Union’s giant Cold War-era experimental...

'Moved to tears': Winners of the 2026 World Food Photography Awards revealed

'Moved to tears': Winners of the 2026 World Food Photography Awards revealed From Soviet spas to sacred rivers, this World Food Photography Awards offer a glimpse into the many ways food influences our lives around the globe. If we eat with our eyes, then the World Food Photography Awards is one of the most satisfying meals of the year. The winners of the 2026 competition have been announced, with British photographer Jo Kearney taking the overall prize for her portrait of a woman pouring...

Inside the cruel confines of Apple TV's 'Star City' with star Rhys Ifans and series creators (interview)

Inside the cruel confines of Apple TV's 'Star City' with star Rhys Ifans and series creators (interview) In Soviet Russia, you don’t watch "Star City," "Star City" watches you! Apple TV"s stellar spinoff of "For All Mankind" has blasted off to enthusiastic reviews with its first two episodes and we’re all being indoctrinated into the dehumanizing Cold War oppression and super-secret town near Moscow where cosmonauts and their families lived and worked under intense control. Rhys Ifans, who...

The Plight of the Radical’s Children

The Russian Revolution aimed to dissolve the family. Neither true equality nor true freedom could be achieved, the Bolsheviks argued, until class bonds trumped all other loyalties—that is, until people no longer felt greater responsibility toward their family than they did toward strangers. “The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine,” Alexandra Kollontai, the Soviet Union’s first people’s commissar for social welfare, wrote.

Paul Anka recounts the ‘dark and bleak’ life under communism as he argued for USA’s freedom

Singer Paul Anka recounted the failures of Soviet Union-era communism, contrasting them with the freedom and abundance of America. The iconic entertainer appeared on Bill Maher's "Club Random" on Monday and described performing in Poland and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War: "We check in a hotel, one bathroom for the whole floor, no room service, and dark and bleak. "Maher slammed communism, saying, "It makes me so frustrated when I see so much sympathy for communism among kids today...

Zelenskyy angers Poland with WWII-era name for army unit

Zelenskyy angers Poland with WWII-era name for army unit June 7, 2026On May 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a decree that a special forces unit of the Ukrainian army was being given the honorary name Heroes of the UPA, explaining that it was "to restore the historical traditions of the national army." However, the decree has created serious tensions with Poland, one of Ukraine's most important allies in the war with Russia. After Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union in...

Russia 'to lower working age to 12 and open labour camps' in bid to solve job crisis amid Ukraine war

Russia 'to lower working age to 12 and open labour camps' in bid to solve job crisis amid Ukraine war Vladimir Putin is facing a growing economic crisis amid the hundreds of thousands of casualties in his meatgrinder war in Ukraine and some 1 million Russians who fled to avoid the draft Russia is considering lowering the working age to 12 and reopening Soviet-era labour camps in a bid to solve the country's spiralling job crisis. Olga Yaroslavskaya, the children's rights commissioner for...