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A look back at the heady Gorbachev era, a time of rationing and glasnost, perestroika and cooperatives, when everything seemed possible.

A look at the language of corruption, which would seem a rather useful thing to have in your back pocket.

What do Leonardo DiCaprio and Ramzan Kadyrov have in common? Why Vladimir Putin, of course.

On the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Boris Nemtsov.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

A look back at 1861, the year where everything began... to fall apart.

A look back at the release of the first Soviet "people's car," the Zhiguli.

Fifteen years after the new Shtandart launched, boat builders on Solovetsky created a replica of an even older ship: the first Russian naval ship built on Russian soil, in 1693.

In the spring of 1703, Peter the Great oversaw the building of Russia’s first Baltic fleet flagship. In 1995, Vladimir Martus decided to build a replica.

Test your knowledge of idioms of both domestic and foreign origin.

Half a century ago, the Soviet dissent movement began when two young writers were put on trial for publishing their works abroad and “slandering the state.” We consider how this relates to modern events.

Reviews of Putin Country, by Anne Garrels, Russian Silver Age Poetry, Sibelan Forrester and Martha Kelley, eds., and Near and Distant Neighbors, by Johnathan Haslam.