Culture & Customs

Russian law enforcement had a busy week, from taking on the ~high~ seas to putting rich jerks in their place.

Falling objects, family feuds, and friendly felines dominated our attention this week.

What’s more surprising, fake feminists or fish with bad teeth?

To selfie or not to selfie? That is the question, or at least one of the questions, addressed this week.

Climate change is destroying Russia and people still want to duel, but at least someone’s getting free pizza.

Russia Weekly gets wacky with singing policemen, forbidden emojis, and flying plagues.

Things worth knowing on the travel front.

This summer Russia’s biggest rock music festival, Nashestvie, faced cancellations by a number of artists who were protesting the festival’s increasing cooperation with the Russian military.

We interview a winemaker and philanthropist related to Rachmaninov, and explore her Tolstoyan connection to Californian soil.

Fishing can tell you a lot about life in the countryside, about sickness and health, chance and Fate, to say nothing of electricity and sausage

After declensions, cases, aspect, verbs of motion, pronunciation, and all the other trials of the Russian language, there is one more thing to learn: quotes, jokes and allusions. Let's do this.

It's fall, which means mushroom season, which means time to get hunting. And cooking some Chanterelle-Apricot Muffins.