Second-class travelers on Russian trains may soon be required to take turns with their neighbors to use their compartment's table.

This is our Video of the Week. Gorgeous drone footage from across Altai.

The world's youngest female pilot to circumnavigate the globe recently stopped in Russia's Far East.

St. Petersburg is a magical place, in part thanks to its feline denizens.

Dostoyevsky spent ten years of his life exiled to Russia's Eastern hinterlands. Beyond the Urals, there are several places that shaped Dostoyevsky and influenced many of his greatest works of literature.

The latest news and developments from Russia that may not have made it into the New York Times.

In which a lucky kitten gets to see a good portion of Russia from the cabin of a very kind truck driver. 

How has Russia changed since the last time you were there, pre-pandemic?

The journey between Moscow and St. Petersburg is about to get a lot faster.

In this week's Odder News, blind dueting, cats at work, and the mice who love COVID.

Andrei Borodulin, the writer and photographer who penned "Gone Fishing," an article about the Volga River delta for our September/October issue, sent us this fantastic short video captured while reporting that story.

Let's take a trip to a nation that no longer exists! We've got an old hard-cover travel guide to lead the way.