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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

In which the author visits Kalmykia to meet with survivors of a horrific genocide few remember.

After declensions, cases, aspect, verbs of motion, pronunciation, and all the other trials of the Russian language, there is one more thing to learn: quotes, jokes and allusions. Let's do this.

The thing about national economies is that they are international.

We review books of fiction (Chekhov, Remizov, the Brothers Strugatsky, and Anderson) and an enticing cookbook.

It's fall, which means mushroom season, which means time to get hunting. And cooking some Chanterelle-Apricot Muffins.