On the dangers of booking one's travel through a debt-strapped agency.

The Siberian village of Okunevo is a "place of power." For literally hundreds of years, people have visited here, convinced that the lake has healing power, among other things.

It always hurts when death comes. Particularly when it is sudden and all too early.

Eight tips to make your travels throughout the former Soviet Union easy, fun, and low-budget!

Urban legends and superstitions made some sculptures in Moscow and St. Petersburg too famous for their own good, and some culture officials have had enough.

Brezhnev’s traffic ticket goes on sale, Crimea shows up in Astrakhan, and a man gives an all for his cat.

Nikita was trained as a philologist, but gave it all up to co-found a craft brewery.

Travelers hailing from 53 countries can now enter St. Petersburg on a hassle-free (and FREE) electronic visa. Dobro pozhalovat!

Small-town Ukraine shows a different side of one the famous "Russian" writer.
 

News on travel, protests, Balashikha, a crooner, and the growing loan bubble.

An excerpt from Benson Bobrick’s new book, a memoir of his life and work as a writer.

Known as “Russia’s Tibet,” the Altai region is vast, unpeopled, and brimming with energy centers.