Tired of having to do Valentine's Day and Mother's Day separately? Try it the Russian way and combine them into International Women's Day! A closer look at this convenient holiday's socialist origins and not-so-socialist present form.

The Soviet satirical magazine Crocodile, which ran from 1922 until the 2000s, was both a government tool for propaganda as well as space for artists, comics, and writers to engage in hard social and political critique.

Surprisingly, a two-bedroom Russian apartment does not make an appropriate habitat for this 13-foot long python.  

Some little-known art from a civilian eyewitness to the Siege of Leningrad is public both at one of the blockade museums in St. Petersburg and in a new book.

A Russian gamer was forced to forfeit a cash prize of $16,000 after his dad turned off the internet.

Aeroflot is offering a short excursion flight for those interested in getting a quick taste of air travel— and wine. 

Moscow's stunning Museum of Hockey and Hockey Hall of Fame is a hidden gem with new investors ready to keep it going – hopefully for a long time to come.

Cold War nostalgia is dripping from the recently aired Russian miniseries "The Optimists: Caribbean Season."

On February 18, the Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (CK) released a stern reminder for Russian youth who might be considering a stint in theft, robbery, extortion or other shenanigans after their fourteenth birthdays.

Russian women seem to luck out more than their male partners during the spring holiday season, a new study shows. 

RIA Novosti's annual survey, ranking each Russian region by residents' quality of life, has some not-so-surprising results.

There are a lot of really wonderful dogs in Russia, but this life-saving cutie has been named the best of all.