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Pavel Lungin’s controversial film Братство is nothing new, but its political context is — and that’s what makes it so dangerous.

Russia remembers the War and recovers from an air tragedy. 

How true-to-life is a favorite Soviet movie, and what does it tell us about the Caucasus?

There are wondrous things under the sea… but don’t get in too deep over your head.

Forced to retire from the entertainer’s life at an early age, Victor turned the world into his stage.

In early March, when Moscow is still buried under more than a meter of snow and people are buried under many inches of fur and heavy wool, there is nothing more annoying than Instagram photos of daffodils, forsythia and cherry blossom buds.

There is never a shortage of political-cultural land mines on which to trod when one’s brief is to cover all things Russian.

After years of threatening to ban cheap dormitory-like hostels and any other accomodation in residential buildings, Russian lawmakers have approved a measure that could cause many private individuals to stop renting out beds, driving up lodging costs for young travelers.

Today, now that the huge dome of St. Isaac’s towers over the center of the city, not far from the granite embankment, the sumptuous Senate and Synod Building, and the iconic Bronze Horseman statue, it is hard to imagine that in its first incarnation this church was much smaller and located on the Admiralty Meadow.

Paul Robeson, the American singer and actor and a political activist, had a cake named after him in Russia.

A photograph captured in 2018 in Red Square captures the moment with beauty and finesse.

Even when you do a good deed, you need to pay attention, or you may chart a new road to humility.