Artist Sasha Sokolova has undertaken a personal, artistic and cultural project to document the daily life of Russia’s remaining war veterans.

This May some very special tanks will be featured in Russian memorial parades: Lend-Lease tanks sent to the USSR by the US and only recently pulled up from the bottom of the sea.

The daily lives of World War II veterans is the subject of a new art project that brings these heroes’ stories and visages front and center.

You can be sure that someone born in 1917 in Russia will have stories to tell. Galina Grebneva has more than her fair share.

In which we look back at spring events that have shaped Russian history in years ending in 8.

We mapped all the US cities paired with a Russian city, and to our surprise, the map looks like Putin's profile.

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

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 the winter of 1968, ousted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was brooding in his government dacha outside Moscow, readying to send his memoirs abroad. Then the British military attache and his son stopped by for a visit.

Of late, more and more Russians are getting involved in historic reenactments, attempting to recreate battles on the land in Russia where they originally occurred.

Over the 70-year lifespan of the “most equal and democratic nation” known as the Soviet Union, just a handful of women rose to the rank of ambassador. A few more have attained this level since 1991, yet diplomacy in Russia remains largely a male preserve.

This is the first time that Russia's Culture Ministry has censored a film by cancelling its license to be shown in theaters. Satire takes a hit.