They don’t know the words. They don’t speak Russian. Still, millions of TikTok users keep hitting replay on a 1938 Soviet song about a girl on a riverbank. “Katyusha” arrived on the platform not as a ...

As Russian athletes prepare for the day when they again hoist Olympic medals to the sound of an unfamiliar anthem and a generic flag, they are calling on Katyusha to help assuage their loss. The ...