In an odd way, it was only after watching the HBO miniseries Chernobyl that I fully appreciated just how great a catastrophe threatened mankind on that April day in 1986.

In the Soviet era, NEP had always been regarded as a strange, only vaguely understood, and not very sensible chapter in Soviet history: a pause between the heroic Civil War and the no less heroic Five-Year Plans.

A severe, remote valley in Ossetia inters the remains of one of Russia’s most revered film stars... and the mingled bones of countless ancients.

The rises and falls of the esteem in which Russians have held Mikhail Gorbachev over the years have been dizzying.

Moscow's stunning Museum of Hockey and Hockey Hall of Fame is a hidden gem with new investors ready to keep it going – hopefully for a long time to come.

Cold War nostalgia is dripping from the recently aired Russian miniseries "The Optimists: Caribbean Season."

New models attempt to put an end to all Dyatlov Pass conspiracies for all eternity... but do they have a chance of succeeding?

Get out your aluminum foil hats, folks. It seems the Soviets got ESP down decades ago.

Russia's solution to social media profanity? Cossacks, of course!

The creaks of a home can startle the most grounded adult. What kind of mischief might this mean, what kind of creatures lurk unseen?

The Leningrad Zoo kept its animals alive during the siege – the 77th anniversary of which was commemorated this week.