September 01, 2016 Art Takes a Village The 11th International Festival of Landscape Art, Arkhstoyanie, took place on July 23-24 in Kaluga Oblast. We sent Nadezhda Grebennikova and Mikhail Mordasov to take a look. Art
September 01, 2016 A Prowess-Testing Pie Russian Wedding Pie (Kurnik) makes great party fare, but it also has an interesting history connected to fall holidays.
September 01, 2016 Field Notes from the Empire's Edge Vladimir Arsenyev was a 28-year-old army officer when he set out to map and study Russia’s Ussuri Kray, bordering China and the Pacific. Thankfully, he also had an eloquent pen. History
September 01, 2016 Malevich's Ukrainian Square A century-old work of art by an avant-garde artist has become a symbol for the growing rift between Russia and Ukraine, just as more is being learned about its famous artist. History
September 01, 2016 Two Moments Two superbly captured athletic moments for two Russian athletes at the Rio games. Sports
September 01, 2016 Memoirs and Filmmaking Reviews of two books by Teffi and a novel, Masha Regina, by Vadim Leventhal.
September 01, 2016 Yes, We're a Sexagenarian Sixty years ago, bureaucrats and journalists on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain came to a remarkable agreement that led to the founding of Russian Life... History Int'l Relations Departments
August 25, 2016 Tractors, smugglers, and the matryoshka from hell It's a tough week for transport in Russia, with a tractor parade, a smugglers' road, a bear on the loose, and an unwieldy matryoshka to top it all off. News The Weekly Russia File
August 23, 2016 Kemerovo Constantin Fedin takes us to the mining capital of Western Siberia: Kemerovo. Regions Everyday Russia
August 23, 2016 Kabardino-Balkaria Natalia Airiyan leads us on a short visit to Kabardino-Balkaria, in the Caucasus mountains, an area rich in ethnic diversity. Regions Everyday Russia
August 22, 2016 Magical Kefir Kefir is the most popular fermented milk in Russia. But it did not get there overnight. Kefir and Russia have a long history... Food & Drink History
August 20, 2016 43 Russian Patriots On the Spine of Russia project, journalists Richardson and Mordasov asked over 40 Russians if they were patriots, and why. Here are some of their responses... Spine of Russia