The Hebrew University’s Jewish National and University Library gained access to a treasure trove of Hebrew manuscripts when it signed an agreement this week with the Lenin Library in Moscow, the ...

2005-09-18 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- The last time I had been in V.I. Lenin's neighborhood, back when there was a Soviet Union, there was a huge neon sign not far from the Kremlin that proclaimed ...

For the first time since the Soviet Revolution, the Lenin State Library which is the largest in the U.S.S.R., today announced establishment of direct contact with publishers in Palestine for the ...

The author, curator of the Slavic and Baltic Division at the New York Public Library, reflects on his first experience with libraries and archives during a year of research in the former Soviet Union ...

Scientists likened a large blaze that devastated one of Russia’s largest research libraries to “Chernobyl.” The fire at Moscow’s Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences likely destroyed ...

Earlier this week, Russian investigators raided Moscow’s Library of Ukrainian Literature. According to the pro-Kremlin media outlet LifeNews, police seized 170 books. All the confiscated books are ...

An American court has rejected an appeal by the Russian government, upholding a court ruling that Russia must return thousands of books to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The thousands books which sit ...