This week, eagles rack up data bills while Putin pontificates about AI and a restaurant operator starts Meatless Mondays.

Fall starts on a harmonious note, Putin’s meeting with the Saudis — not so much. Also, happy birthday to vodka!

Forget vodka – dessert is the best part of Russian meals.

Mushrooms have always been a part of the Russian diet, going back to ancient times,

A telling photo from Voronezh's Central Market.

Lakes vanish, free food appears, and a priest speaks to the dead.

In which Communists hate Georgian food, a cross is accidentally paved over, and the King of Spades rules Russia.

Join us on a visit to Brighton Beach, a slice of Russia in America that has been shaped by the immigrant experience.

Tinder, fish soup, and wakeboarding — these make both entertaining pastimes and fantastic publicity stunts.

Some off-the-cuff dacha recipes for you (summer seems like too relaxed a time for exacting recipes).

A brief history of the Russian bakery, from imperial times to the Internet age.

Paul Robeson, the American singer and actor and a political activist, had a cake named after him in Russia.