A new ranking shows that 4% of the world's best chefs come from Russia. 

As policy dictates, election staff must now dispose of unused ballots in Russia's State Duma elections – and you’ll find that some have been cutting corners. Chainsaw, anyone?

In which a Russian priest becomes a hockey referee and begins to transform the sport. 

If you love the sea, Ivan Aivazovsky is your man. Everyone should know about this Armenian-Russian painter.

Roskomnadzor seems to have a funny bone to pick with the Sverdlovsk government publication Oblastnaya Gazeta, blocking their website in delayed reaction to a questionable text.

Andrei Borodulin, the writer and photographer who penned "Gone Fishing," an article about the Volga River delta for our September/October issue, sent us this fantastic short video captured while reporting that story.

It seems that vampires aren't the only creatures who choose to sleep in coffins; drunk Russians do, too.

In Chelyabinsk, for the first time, an agricultural enterprise is under legal heat for the mass killing of bees.

Residents of Voronezh have made us all proud (and a little bit jealous) by setting the Russian record for eating the most sweet cottage cheese-based desserts in one day. 

Let's take a trip to a nation that no longer exists! We've got an old hard-cover travel guide to lead the way. 

Last week, Russian children gathered for the Day of Knowledge on September 1. It is quite the spectacle.

Three Russian cities are set to host the country's first unmanned taxis. What could go wrong?