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Aeroflot is offering a short excursion flight for those interested in getting a quick taste of air travel— and wine. 

News and readings of note from all around Russia.

The Russia vaccine seems top-notch, but low public trust and a botched rollout remain formidable barriers to returning to normalcy.

Just over a decade ago in Moscow, I interviewed Alexey Navalny, who was then only beginning to carve out his profile as a blogger, activist, and politician. It was May of 2008.

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.

How a little bit of stress in the wrong place and turn writing into urination.

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.

Digging back through memories, and unearthing a cream puff.

A review of a new collection of Leskov's stories, and a new translation of Sollogub.

A nurse injects a performer in a bear costume with Russia’s Gam- COVID-Vac vaccine (under the brand name of Sputnik V) at a temporary COVID-19 vaccination site in Moscow’s Shchyolkovsky shopping centre.

Just outside St. Petersburg, a small, ancient ethnos comes to terms with its history, its language, and with its inevitable end.