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Is it football or soccer? Either way, TWERF prepares for the start of the World Cup by examining Russia’s chances (not great), while still paying attention to a few other stories before the madness begins.

This week gives everybody a new lease on life, whether in the form of a photo touch up, another platform for Putin, or an actual new life for a “dead” journalist.

In a galaxy far, far away, the Millennium Falcon circled over a vicious battle with art and a dangerous passageway. That far-off galaxy being Russia, of course.

What do you have to do as Russian tsar to be remembered as "Great"? You can start by reforming the government, social structure, customs, language, and, well, everything else.

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov is on the 15th day of a hunger strike in a northern-Siberian prison. Anton Dolin explains how Sentsov's case is a sad miscarriage of justice, and what one can or cannot do about it.

This week Russians hit the streets, waterways, and air for all sorts of occasions.

Artist Sasha Sokolova has undertaken a personal, artistic and cultural project to document the daily life of Russia’s remaining war veterans.

What goes up must come down: tales of flags, currencies, and seaworthy laundromats.

This May some very special tanks will be featured in Russian memorial parades: Lend-Lease tanks sent to the USSR by the US and only recently pulled up from the bottom of the sea.

A vibrant cuisine is testing the limits, fusing with other national cuisines. How is this happening in Russia?

'You want to go out into Khatanga Gulf?' So begins an adventure aboard a tenacious tugboat in Russia’s northern seas.

The daily lives of World War II veterans is the subject of a new art project that brings these heroes’ stories and visages front and center.