Everything of note on the travel front.

As the New Cold War between the US and Russia heats up, joint space ventures, some 40 years in the making, are in the crosshairs.

Everything of note on the travel front.

Everything of note on the travel front.

Having waged campaigns against street protesters and foreign-funded NGOs, the Kremlin is apparently worried about other forms of independent thought, namely researchers and intellectuals who value scientific merit above political needs.

Times have gotten tough for Russian NGOs lately. New laws, the expulsion of USAID and now some troubling signs of high-level internal spying is making the work of non-profits and rights watchdogs downright perilous.

Just two weeks prior to Russia's recent parliamentary elections, President Dmitry Medvedev went on television to make a hawkish anti-American speech. Whither the reset?

A few weeks ago our company, Russian Information Services, agreed to take over as publisher of Russian Life.

This week, depressing news about divisions and birth rates can only really be counteracted with a smile over the Orthodox church’s new take on sex.

Overlooked and under-read news from all over Russia.