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The Australian edition of 60 Minutes traveled to Oymakon last winter and brought back this story. 

Most people will associate Russia and Russians with tea, yet coffee is not some sort of Ivan-Come-Lately to Mother Russia.

2018 is out, 2019 is in, and even with the holidays, Russian news didn’t stop.

In this issue’s Uchites, we look at a popular song by the poet Bulat Okudzhava and the composer Isaac Schwartz. It is about love and separation.

Catherine the Great was a prolific letter writer and her missives offer a uniquely intimate view of her personal life and political development (to say nothing of her humor and passion).

Krylov on democracy and how leaders are chosen: "However just the rules and laws, in unjust hands or beaks or paws they can be bent to serve the goal of leaders loath to lose control."

Our translator of Krylov's difficult fables shares how she approaches translation of this most colloquial of poets.

“Grandfather” Ivan Krylov was widely known for his gargantuan appetites and for the dinner parties regularly thrown in his honor. Our recipe for Ukha should satisfy.

Living on ice, the boorocracy, profiling perps, naming cities, and where smoking holds sway.

Krylov on how one negotiates with wolves. Hint: one doesn't. "Of wolves I’ve learned a thing or two. With them there’s only one sure truce."

Pavel Bazhov, Russia's greatest modern fabulist, had a complicated and eventful life.

How salt riots and a young tsar led to a Zemsky Sobor and a new body of laws, The Council Code.