President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Beijing for the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years.

Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev would have been 110 on December 19. There are plenty of fun facts and surprising jokes behind the eyebrows.

A look at how the Jesuits, Pope Francis, and Georgetown University all share an interesting connection to Russia.

Russia’s Ministry of Health discussed ways vodka can affect the coronavirus (spoiler alert: not much).

Think you know your vodka? Take this True/False quiz (just 12 items) about Russians and their vodka and see if you are right about that...

Russian literature has an answer for everything. In the times of coronovirus, this is your guide.

Kefir is the most popular fermented milk in Russia. But it did not get there overnight. Kefir and Russia have a long history...