These ideological philosophers of communism had cult status in the USSR: their profiles were displayed on many Soviet state institutions, on postage stamps and on posters; while monuments to them ...

Russian exports in the first ten months of 2021 totaled $388.4 billion, an increase of 42.8% over the same period last year, according to the Russian Federal Customs Service (FCS). This growth is ...

Cross a burning stream, fight a dragon, find the city of Russian Atlantis – Slavs had it all in their ancient mythology. Now, all we have left are the names of the sacred places. This sacred ...

Everything you wanted to know about the USSR’s notorious security apparatus. From its inception and until the end of the Soviet Union, the KGB was a prominent force in Soviet politics and society.

Anton Chekhov’s name is synonymous with ambivalence, mood and nuance. One of the greatest playwrights in history focused on “what lies beneath”, rather than what’s on the surface.

Hillwood Museum; National Gallery of Art; Queen Elizabeth II collection After the October Revolution of 1917, the Soviet government wanted to lift the economy whilst erasing the last vestiges of ...

Why visit Tobolsk? Well, for one, to look at the ancient capital of Siberia, feel what the great exile Fyodor Dostoevsky and Romanovs royal family experienced here and also admire how the city has ...

The weapon has to pass the roughest operational tests in the world that no other weapon has to sustain in order to be adopted to the military. The AK assault rifle remains the only one capable of ...

Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets, Soviet of Federation – the word has been and is still widely used in Russia, but what does it exactly mean? During the Soviet times, the USSR was often ...

During the 70 years of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the number of constituent parts changed, but most of the time there were 15 of them. Here is the list. In the ...

A mother of four and former English language teacher, Tatyana Bakalchuk set up a Russian version of Amazon from scratch and, in 2021, became Russia’s richest woman. Sounds like yet another ...

One of the smallest indigenous peoples in Russia, the Aleuts, live in a limited area on a remote island off the Kamchatka Peninsula and keep in touch with American Aleuts in Alaska. The distance ...