One Russian city is taking moonshine off the streets by offering a trade: groceries in exchange for booze.

What better way to celebrate the shifting seasons than with a review of the delicious things you might find stored away in a Russian pantry for colder days. Recipes included!

The internet has been talking about Ilya Repin's painting Barge Haulers on the Volga a lot lately but, as usual, it is ignoring history.

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

Somebody’s got a sweet tooth in Tyumen, where they deputy head of Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service has accepted forbidden fruit in exchange for the right to supply other sweet ingredients.

Just when you thought that Russia had everything, an inventor from Krasnodar gains recognition for creating the world's smallest (functional) bicycle. 

A village in Bashkortostan has opened a new gazebo as a gathering place for the community, and photos certainly make it look welcoming.

How a classic romance novel inspired a delicious Russian holiday delight.

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

There are worse fashion blunders than white socks and a self-tying tie, but the chief prosecutor’s office of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Territory might disagree.

On this, Vladimir Putin's 69th birthday, we are reminded that even authoritarian leaders are softies for good dogs. Maybe especially so?

Meet Khokhulya: he's a Russian desman, the official eco-hero of the Kaluga Region, and now an internet personality to boot.