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Nearly 100 years ago, an impassioned adventurer undertook a seemingly impossible trek.

The Kremlin is currently conducting not one, but two horrific wars.

Pro-Kremlin activists blocked the entrance of Polish diplomats to a cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Some books our reviewer liked, and their significance for lovers of all things Russian.

How a woman from Kiev became a symbol of emancipation for her generation.

Work is underway to replace a Soviet symbol on a Kyiv monument with something more Ukrainian.

Every September 3, and on nine other days of the year, the city of Volgograd will change its name back to Stalingrad.

Esteban "Sieva" Volkov, Trotsky's grandson and last surviving witness of his murder, died at age 97.

A medieval guide to life and ethics may be integrated into the Russian education system.

189 years of tsarist era newspapers are now freely accessible online.

A villager, shod in felt boots, carries an oil portrait of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.