Baba Yaga, the mysterious witch of Russian mythology, is one of the most iconic and terrifying figures in Slavic folklore.

Grounding Baba Yaga is another. “The trouble is that our electronic warfare equipment either doesn’t exist, or they [the Ukrainians] just don’t care about it,” the Russian observer wrote.

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A key figure from Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga certainly fulfils the requirements of the wicked witch – she lives in a house that walks through the forest on chicken legs, and sometimes flies ...

In folded form the Baba Yaga resembles the head of a Mississippi beast that is hardly mythical — a gator. Kansept. Baba Yaga is also the name of a spicy-looking 1973 Italian horror film (IMDb logline: ...

A Ukrainian soldier prepares a drone for flight. Kyiv has switched up its tactics with its Baba Yaga drones, putting Russia on the defensive. Kostya Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images ...

A new novel reimagines Baba Yaga — a crone figure in Slavic folklore — as a Jewish woman living in an Eastern European town during a time of pogroms.

Theatre Intime’s new show “Yaga,” first written and produced by artistic director Richard Rose of the Tarragon Theater in 2019 and now directed by Kat McLauglin ’25, is a humorous and riveting ...

Ukraine’s Baba Yaga drones have a powerful new weapon. Recent images show the night bombers are now equipped with guided bombs able to strike from long range with high precision. That creates a ...

In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms.

"Baba Yaga still remains one of the most ambiguous, cunning, and clever women of folklore," says Ryan. "[She] commands fear and respect, and simultaneously awe and desire.