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TWERF takes on the political this week, bringing you news of the election and the weird things that accompanied it.

Here's a suggestion for improving your Russian: watch Russian TV. But which TV? Here's a suggestion...

Putin has again been elected president. This post was originally written/aired in November 2007. Apparently, it still seems relevant.

World Cup picks, elections, and fraudulent activity all point to the same lesson this week: make your choices wisely.

On this day, 28 years ago, two naive young Americans sat down and agreed to found a publishing company together. This publishing company.

Nukes get names, a truck becomes a camera, and an old church gets a fresh look.

Call it resilience, grit, or just perseverance – it takes a special sort of person to have survived the last 100 years of Russian and Soviet history. 

Adults want kids to vote, kids want Leonardo DiCaprio to soak himself, and Leo wants fewer video games on TV.

Maria Zakharova, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department, sits down to talk with Russian Life about what it means to be a woman in a position of influence.

In which we review a novel about Bulgakov and his love, Margarita (Mikhail and Margarita, by Julie Himes); Soviet Salvage, by Catherine Walworth; and The House of Government, by Yuri Slezkine.

On the Soviet tradition of making do, and spending long evenings around the table drinking tea and eating cake. Like Bird's Milk cake, this issue's recipe.

A few enterprising Russians are seeking to put their country at the forefront of the world’s dirigible industry. Their rising hopes are built on the country’s long history of aerostat development.