Culture & Customs

The Ministry of Defense plans to draft 300,000 soldiers to encircle Kharkiv, Ukraine, according to independent news outlet Vyorstka.

In honor of the full solar eclipse visiting us in 2 weeks, we offer a few things Anton Chekhov had to say about eclipses that passed through his life.

How have Russian women's lives changed in the two years since the beginning of Russia's War on Ukraine?

A recommendation on how many pancakes you should eat during Maslenitsa.

A century after it first opened, the Jewish Museum in Moscow recreated an exhibit of Jewish avant-garde artists from Chagall to Shterenberg. 

Indian authorities uncovered a human trafficking network that tricked its citizens into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

A St. Petersburg tour guide has been punished for breaking locks on rooftop excursions.

A psychic from Kotelnikovo defrauded a client out of R67 million.

A playwright and a theater director were arrested for a play criticizing ISIS. After months in jail, they spoke from their defendants' glass box.

A survey reveals the top gifts for Women's Day in 2024.

Women discuss their decisions to adopt a "matronymic," honoring their mothers, rather than the traditional Russian patronymic.

An online retailer removed books by Dostoyevsky, Murakami, Wilde, Sorokin, and others under the "LGBT Propaganda" law.