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Russia is in the lead in staking a claim for Arctic "land" and the ownership of what are estimated to be vast oil and gas reserves.

The more foreign things you forbid or ignore, the smaller and less safe your world becomes.

A look at Russia's on-again, off-again relationship with censorship since the time of Peter the Great.

It may have been built by Russian laborers, but the Kremlin and its churches has Italian architects to thank for its Third Rome design ethos. This is their story.

One hundred and fifty years go this July, the first part of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace was published.

Where we take on the knotty issues of how to start and end an email in Russian. Plus of course some of the stuff in between.

The Russians and the Swiss have had a special relationship for over 200 years. It all dates back to a rather perilous crossing of the Alps by Russian troops that preserved Swiss independence.

In a small village in northwest Russia, Nadia Sablin spent seven summers capturing evocative photos of her dear Russian aunts. It is a stunning portrait of their generation and the countryside.

Is Russian poetry a shortcut to understanding the ever elusive Russian Soul? We aim to find out.

Syrian refugees are also streaming through Russia to Europe, only along a not very hospitable path, and are forced to make the last leg on bicycles.

Reviews of Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus, Stephen Meyer's The New Tsar, and Svetlana Stephenson's Gangs of Russia.

Moscow has seen a surge in food truck festivals. Jennifer Eremeeva went to check one out and found one of the most popular proprietors on site was offering an old Georgian drink filled with nostalgia... and tarragon.