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Forget vodka – dessert is the best part of Russian meals.

Russian women: give birth in Syrian prisons, drive metro trains, make news (and borsch), and welcome children home from the dead.

Asya Lisina created a beautiful and somewhat surprising cover for the current issue of Russian Life. We asked her to explain herself...

Life and folklore in the remote Russian Far North

Russian scientists have restored the steppe of Kulikovo – just as it was when the country's seminal battle was fought in 1380.

There are two kinds of fast learners: robots and schoolchildren. Meanwhile, an odd cosmonaut tradition comes under siege.

Scouting has had a long and complicated history in Russia. And, not surprisingly, it gets a bit political.

In the public mind, Russian forests have always been an unlimited resource. Not any longer.

Our collection of interesting social, political, and economic data in this issue.

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

Among “the Terrible’s” unfortunate wives, Maria Temryukovna, his second, is an interesting case.

On September 28, 1989 – just a few months after Boris Yeltsin's triumph at the Congress of People’s Deputies – the police found a muddied and wet Yeltsin near a dacha community outside Moscow.