Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The debut of Russian rock ’n’ roll saga “Tsoi,” based on the life of the iconic rebel singer-songwriter Viktor Tsoi, who died in ...

Viktor Tsoi embodied late-Soviet cool before it was overtaken by post-Soviet kitsch and defined late-Soviet hip before it was overrun by post-Soviet glitz. He epitomized late-Soviet sincerity before ...

Russian rock icon Viktor Tsoi would have turned 50 on June 21. The band Spleen insists: “the rock-and-roll star must die very soon.” And many rock fans are certain that Viktor Tsoi, the symbol of ...

For three decades, generations of “Kinomans,” or fans of the St. Petersburg rock band Kino, dressed in black, rolled up their sleeves and played guitars wishing to look and sound as brave, open-minded ...

Viktor Tsoi, the iconic frontman of 80s rock group Kino, looms large in the firmament of Russian rock music, in spite of his untimely death almost a quarter of a century ago. It is almost 25 years ...

“In my view, young Viktor Tsoi was a melancholy poet,” said Yoo Teo, the main actor who played the Korean-Soviet rock singer. The Korean-Soviet rock martyr Viktor Tsoi is a symbol of freedom and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Viktor Tsoi never became well-known outside the former Soviet Union. But to a generation in the late 1980s, he ...

A monument to Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi has been unveiled in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, the second such memorial to him in the Central Asian country. A member of the late musician's Kino ...

August 15 marks the 30th anniversary of the tragic death of Viktor Tsoi, the Russian-Korean rock star who was killed in a car crash in 1990. Tsoi and his band Kino shot to fame during the latter years ...

For anyone watching the protests in Belarus, there is one song that keeps being heard in the crowds. Its name is Khochu Peremen. It's a song about waiting for change, and it has deep resonance for ...