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Mikhail Romm is remembered by everyone who ever worked with him with tenderness and affection. Yet it is hard not to wonder how differently his life and work might have turned out had it not been for the exigencies of Russian and Soviet history.

What is a Russian home without a stove? Exactly. But how does one build one? Now that is less simple.

On the life and mysteries of one of history's most famous sleeper spies, Konon Molody.

2020 will surely go down in Russian history as one of the most word-productive years since the changes of 1917 and 1992.

News items on an Oscar contender, a respected doctor, renovation of Tula, and a Kremlin dig.

This is how 2021 should start: a cat in Ulyanovsk was rescued from a trash compactor and awarded a government post.

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov holds a somewhat odd place in Russian literature. He is at once a famous writer, a recognized classic, yet he has not won the same honors granted to the “first tier” writers.

A determined artist, photographer, and activist takes on the restoration of some wooden homes in a village just outside of Samara. In the process, she learns much about angle grinders, her fellow Russians, and, of course, herself.

Everyone is pretty clear that 2020 was an "off" year. But these six stories were definitely "on." They got the most reads from our thousands of readers...

This week, we mark the end of 2020 with transportation stats, social media monitoring, and preparations for wild celebrations.

“A person who would personify the hero of 2020, according to Russians, is honest, decent, and fair (13%). Of the options proposed, Russians most often referred to the heroes of the year as doctors and medical workers (55%), as well as EMERCON employees who save people in emergency situations (31%).”

-Results from a poll by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM)on who Russians consider to be the heroes of 2020

A dairy farmer in Russia's coldest village has found a way to keep his cow's udders warm in the dead of winter.