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Today is the 190th anniversary of the great writer's birth. We thought we would share a few readings to get you in a Tolstoyan spirit.

Russia Weekly gets wacky with singing policemen, forbidden emojis, and flying plagues.

Things worth knowing on the travel front.

The deaths in July under mysterious circumstances of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic (CAR) has refocused attention on Russian mercenaries in foreign lands.

One week before our 33-day crowdfunding campaign was set to end on July 31, things were not looking good. But then the Tribe stepped up.

The latest news from all across the Russian Federation. And then some.

In this issue’s Uchites, we look at common Russian idioms and the challenges of translating them into English.

Stepping through hundreds of years of history, we look back at signal events that have occurred in these fall months.

This summer Russia’s biggest rock music festival, Nashestvie, faced cancellations by a number of artists who were protesting the festival’s increasing cooperation with the Russian military.

In 1992, a famous American dancer visited the formerly closed seaport of Vladivostok. Then everything blew up.

We interview a winemaker and philanthropist related to Rachmaninov, and explore her Tolstoyan connection to Californian soil.

Fishing can tell you a lot about life in the countryside, about sickness and health, chance and Fate, to say nothing of electricity and sausage