Winter break is known to be a difficult time for Russia: to cope with all that time off, many flock to the cinema. This holiday season's most popular movie? It's about tanks.

The Battle of Molodi, while not a well-remembered battle, was a rather important one in Russia’s history. Yet for some reason it is little-known.

On this day 345 years ago, Alexander Menshikov was born into a poor peasant family. No one could have predicted to what heights he would rise.

The deaths in July under mysterious circumstances of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic (CAR) has refocused attention on Russian mercenaries in foreign lands.

This May some very special tanks will be featured in Russian memorial parades: Lend-Lease tanks sent to the USSR by the US and only recently pulled up from the bottom of the sea.

Russia's annual spring draft began April 1. This dinosaur gets harder to kill with each passing year.

Soviet revolutionary mythology had it that the Aurora’s shot, signaling the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution, was heard round the world. We check in to find out the latest on the cruiser, and to examine some of its own myths.

James Brown decided to test himself at the elite Russian paratroopers’ boot camp. This is his story.