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Elena Chernyshova, 34, lives in Norilsk. She sends us pictures of this mining town, as well as the Siberian city of Kodinsk.

On Monday, January 18, a new BBC six-part miniseries of Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace comes to American television. Here's your crib sheet.

The classic work of Russian journalism, Moscow and Muscovites, by journalist Vladimir Gilyarovsky (translated by Brendan Kiernan), received the prestigious 2015 AATSEEL Award for Best Scholarly Translation into English.

Join with us in a celebration of 13 inspired displays of Putinalia (not as nasty as it sounds) that Russia has gifted to the world.

Under Stalin, a poem could mean life or death. For many poets, it was a one-way ticket to the Gulag. Today, poems can be a means to face cultural memories of arrests in the night, forced labor, and the silence demanded of people fearing those fates. 

We are excited to announce the eighth book in our popular Bilingual series: Alexander Griboyedov's classic Woe from Wit.

A look back on the words and phrases that defined the Russian language in 2015.

Most Russophiles are of two minds on Russia these days, struggling to reconcile the Russia they love with the one they hate.

The Congress of Paris in 1856 settled the outcome of the Crimean War, where Russia's loss set the stage for the next fifty years of history.

On the continued relevance of Malevich's Black Square.

This issue's language insert excerpts this famous Pushkin fairy tale in search of anachronistic words.