December 13, 2007 Russian Orthodox Christmas The Church's celebration of the Nativity is on January 7th; information about the Feasts of Christ's coming into the world and Scripture readings for the services and Liturgies. Holidays Religion Russia File
December 11, 2007 Solzhenitsyn's Birthday For 18 years, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - writer, Nobel laureate and political dissident - lived with his family in Cavendish, Vermont. Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 for cataloguing the crimes of the Gulag, he spent long days at the family's Vermont home, writing and researching... Russia File
December 10, 2007 Putin Lite or False Dmitry? And so the choice has been made.Dmitry Medvedev will be the next president of Russia, having gotten the nod from Putin, United Russia and all the other powers that matter.Now the chatter will begin discussing whether Medvedev is more liberal, how he is the "softer" choice than would have been the candidate of the siloviki, Sergei Ivanov.Don't believe a word of it.Medvedev and Putin have worked hand in glove for the past 17 years. Medvedev, in his m Russia File
December 04, 2007 Holiday Gift Ideas Where we reveal where to buy everything from Russian cologne to Russian videos. Holidays Russia File
