It seemed like there was a time when everybody’s aunt had an old one in their closet. Balalaika, that is…a traditional Russian instrument that looks like a triangular guitar and has three strings.

The balalaikas were ringing out this week not back in the U.S.S.R., but in Bloomington. More than 100 players of the triangular, three-stringed Russian folk guitar and its sister instrument, the domra ...

Britain's only balalaika orchestra is struggling for members partly because of anti-Russian sentiment within the UK, its founder has said. Common in Eastern European folk music, balalaikas usually ...