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A cold flag, a resolved cold case, and the not-cold-at-all hearts of Russian children

Urban legends and superstitions made some sculptures in Moscow and St. Petersburg too famous for their own good, and some culture officials have had enough.

Seven types of kasha to last you all winter – from farina to kutya, and everything worth eating in between...

Brezhnev’s traffic ticket goes on sale, Crimea shows up in Astrakhan, and a man gives an all for his cat.

A little-known holiday brings to the fore well-known debates about Russian politics.

Fish aren’t food, ice cream is medicine, ferns are pickles

Hearty Russian soups to warm up this autumn, all seven days a week. 

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a lubricious, bawdy, impetuous, whoring gambler who seldom missed an opportunity to pick a fight.

The final shots of the First World War (“The War to End All Wars”) were fired on November 11, 1918. In Russia, this event went largely unnoticed.

The whole world knows the word “Kalashnikov.” What kind of a man was Mikhail Kalashnikov? And can we ever separate the man from the legends that surround him and his AK-47?

November 30, 1939, marked the start of a war that has been all but forgotten in Russia: the war between the Soviet Union and Finland, commonly referred to in English as “The Winter War.”

A favorite evening cartoon is the basis for this issue's language column.