This week is all about the places where Russians and new cultural phenomena meet, for better and for worse.

Climate change is destroying Russia and people still want to duel, but at least someone’s getting free pizza.

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov is on the 15th day of a hunger strike in a northern-Siberian prison. Anton Dolin explains how Sentsov's case is a sad miscarriage of justice, and what one can or cannot do about it.

What goes up must come down: tales of flags, currencies, and seaworthy laundromats.

On why #metoo is not taking hold in Russia.

On the mall fire disaster in Kemerovo and how the system is doing nothing to prevent the next disaster of this type.

Adults want kids to vote, kids want Leonardo DiCaprio to soak himself, and Leo wants fewer video games on TV.

On the preemptive shutdown of a ballet directed by Krill Serebennikov, who, subsequent to this issue going to press, was arrested on trumped up charges of financial fraud.

Not many organizations defend the press in modern Russia. In fact, just one seems to be doing it vigorously. This one.

Our producer, Misha, wanted us to row across the Volga River to visit 100-year-old Tatyana Semyonovna. He felt it would be epic and symbolic. We disagreed...

A family of animal defenders gets burned out of their home. All they want is to return, to help more animals.

In cooperation with the “Lived” Project, Arzamas selected personal diary entries written immediately before their authors were arrested during the Great Terror. Almost all of these diaries were kept in the FSB Archive – the principal source of information for historians working on the events of 1937 – 1938.