A Russian independent journalist has published an exposé on Putin's "biomaterials."

Georgians welcome Russians fleeing their country, but only if they don't support the war in Ukraine.

Armenia’s relationship with Russia is complicated, yet locals are welcoming fleeing Russians.

"The future of Ukraine will not be decided by Putin but by the people of Ukraine. It should not be decided by force but by freedom." 

– Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at 'London Stands With Ukraine' Rally

"This property has been liberated."

– A banner hanging from a Russian oligarch's mansion taken over by Ukrainian Refugees

Two of Russia's biggest rappers are taking a stance against the war in Ukraine.

One of the earliest residents of Anchorage, Alaska, was a Russian guy with a larger-than-life personality.

San Francisco's hottest new graffiti artist is from Russia.

Florence, Italy, is joining in on the Dostoyevsky anniversary fun.

A wedding fit for a Romanov went down in St. Petersburg on the first of October.

It is astonishing to think that as recently as the eighteenth century – not the Middle Ages, not the days of Marco Polo, but in the supposedly enlightened eighteenth century – people still had only the vaguest idea of where Asia ended and America began.

Remnants of the Imperial Russian past are all over Alaska – and California, too.