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What is most important is to keep telling the individual stories, making human connections, sharing the important ideas that we meet.

What's news on the travel front.

In which we review The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessions from Russian Literature, by Viv Groskop, and Restless Empire, by Ian Barnes.

We consider some of the best holiday treats, which are of course cookies, and then serve of a simple and delicious recipe.

A round-up of some of the latest news from Russia.

President Vladimir Putin has elevated the philosopher Ivan Ilyin by referring to his ideas in speeches and even making works by Ilyin required reading. We delve into his murky past.

An assemblage of crafters, knitters and felters talk about what it means to be a small producer in Russia.

Thousands of war refugees are flooding Europe from the East. No, this is not a story of today, but of the world a century ago.

In which the Rural Council takes up the case of “The Conduct of Nikolayev, N. N.”

An American writer consumed by Anna Karenina goes in search of the great writer’s little-known refuge beyond the Volga, near Samara.

Laura Williams, a long-time contributor to Russian Life (author of the wonderful book, Notes from a Russian Village), passed away suddenly on October 28, 2018.

A dog is a basic necessity in the village, and the bigger the dog, the better. Chado is decidedly not big.