Jun 21 Preview: Director Robin Hessman Explores Last Soviet Generation in 'My Perestroika' By Molly Finnegan This week on the NewsHour, "My Perestroika," a documentary that looks at the last Soviet generation, will be airing as part of our partnership with The Economist Film Project. Jeffrey Brown talks to director Robin Hessman. Continue reading
Jun 21 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Katherine G. Farley, chairwoman of Lincoln Center, is involved in developing two projects in China. Continue reading
Jun 21 What You Might Have Missed As we said earlier, while Art Beat may have been down for the last three weeks, we were still producing stories. Here they are, in case you missed them. Continue reading
Jun 21 Slide Show: The World's Biggest Refugee Hot Zones By Talea Miller More than 80 percent of the world's 15.4 million refugees are hosted in some of the world's poorest countries, according to new 2010 data released this week by the U.N. High Commission on Refugees. Driven from their homes… Continue reading
Jun 21 ...And We're Back After repair work by our colleagues on the PBS tech team, we're back in business and resuming our regular weekday daily publishing schedule. Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch On Wednesday's NewsHour: 'My Perestroika' director Robin Hessman For more, go to: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch Amid Push for Talks With Taliban, Where Do Rights of Afghan Women Fit In? Three Afghan women, influential figures in politics, business and non-governmental organizations, were in Washington last week meeting with senior members of the Obama administration and Congress on the topic of negotiating peace with the Taliban. Margaret Warner gets their views… Continue watching
Jun 20 Photos from 'My Perestroika,' Then and Now By Saskia de Melker "My Perestroika," a documentary by Robin Hessman, follows five ordinary Russians who lived through extraordinary times. Borya, Olga, Andrei, Ruslan, and Lyuba reflect on their Soviet childhoods and navigate today's ever-changing post-Soviet Russia. Continue reading
Jun 17 Watch 'Unlikely Brothers' Chronicles Forging of a Unique Bond for 2 Men Siblings don't always have to share a mother or a father to forge a lasting bond. Human rights activist John Prendergast and "little brother" Michael Mattocks speak with Gwen Ifill about the highs and lows of their unlikely "brotherhood" and… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch Could Saudi Women's Driving Protest Usher in Social Reforms? Videos posted on YouTube Friday showed several Saudi Arabian women driving in Riyadh and other cities -- a direct violation of a religious ban that prohibits women to drive a car or obtain a drivers license. Judy Woodruff discusses the… Continue watching