Polls and what Russians think about the man in the Kremlin.

On that frosty January evening in 1982, running coatless back to my hotel, I could really have used Gogol’s overcoat.

The USSR’s abrupt termination on December 25, 1991, was the most significant international event of the last half of the twentieth century.

You never know what you are going to find when you wander Russian roads.

I always find it fascinating to glimpse another person’s world for a day or so, to learn what they are doing in their corner of the Russian world.

What makes this magazine different is not the people creating it, but the people reading it.

By any measure, Russia has a lot coming down the pike that would seem to augur better ties with the West.

Announcing the launch of the Russian Life Community

Readers of a publication called Russian Life may wonder why there is a picture of Kyrgyzstan on the magazine’s cover.

From the Editor

From the editor