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Over half of respondents on a recent Russian survey indicated that they aren’t opposed to office romances.

A former KGB agent recently claimed that many Soviet celebrities, including multiple famous actors, were agents of the “special services."

In which we share some of Russia's big monuments (and moments) – from ice battles to DNA in stone and steel.

Russians may have found a new favorite form of wheels.

In early May, everyone is feeling exhausted after a long, vitamin-deprived winter: schoolchildren are dragging themselves to the June 1 school-year finish line, and their parents are just starting to recover from the cold, dark winter. That’s when the holidays hit.

An excerpt from the fine new novel Zuleikha, by Guzel Yakhina, about a woman's survival in Siberia exile, inspired by childhood memories of the author's grandmother.

In the summer of 1922, Ruth Epperson Kennell, a children’s librarian, left New York City for the far reaches of Siberia. She travelled with her husband Frank and 132 other ‘pioneers' who were eager to establishing industrial and agricultural communes to aid the ‘new Russia’.

If these walls could talk. The history and horror of one of the most epic construction projects of the Soviet era.