Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, Russian singer Iosif Kobzon, right, and Pro-Russian rebel leader Alexander ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Soviet crooner Iosif Kobzon of Russia performs as an invited guest during the opening show of the New Wave ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin led mourners at the moving funeral of the 'Soviet Sinatra' Iosif Kobzon today. The crooner, who was a perennial fixture on Soviet and Russian radio in the early 1960s, ...

Iosif Kobzon, a Soviet era singer who was a staunch supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, died at the age of 80. He was banned from entering the U.S. in 1995 because of alleged mafia ties. By ...

The standard shorthand is to describe Iosif Kobzon as “the Russian Frank Sinatra,” a moniker that encompasses both his career as a popular singer and suggestions that he had connections to the Russian ...

Renowned Russian crooner Iosif Kobzon, a Soviet-era icon and a Kremlin-loyal lawmaker sanctioned in the West over Moscow’s interference in Ukraine, has died at the age of 80, Russia’s news agencies ...

Iosif Kobzon, the Russian crooner who died at 80 on Thursday, came out on top in three distinct chapters of his country’s history: the Soviet era, the brief window of freedom and chaos in the 1990s, ...

Reporting from Moscow — Iosif Kobzon, an iconic Russian crooner and political figure dubbed “the Soviet Sinatra” for his decades-long career, has died. He was 80 years old. One of the most revered ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Iosif Kobzon, an iconic Russian crooner and political figure dubbed "the Soviet Sinatra" for his decades-long career, has died. He was 80 years old. One of the most revered Russian ...