After the recent Russian local elections were won by the Kremlin-backed ruling party, United Russia, opposition parties cried foul. A review of blogs and online comments from the Russian southern city of Astrakhan shows quite how bad things got.
"Russia has two problems: fools and roads", the writer Nikolai Gogol said of his country almost two centuries ago. Russians tend to object that there are fools the
The death of actor Oleg Yankovsky has stunned Russians and caused a real shock among his fans. It is difficult to recall a time over the last 20-30 years when
Pavel Bardin's film Russia 88 has yet to reach the big screen, but myths and legends have already grown up around it. This film had been eagerly awaited
Safe again, since the Russian government's recent ban on hunting baby seals. "They look like living soft toys, they are fluffy and white with large black eyes.
Shukhrat Berdyev, a schoolteacher from Uzbekistan, is 48 years old. He was born in a suburb of Shakhrisabz, a provincial town 400 km from the capital Tashkent. Before the collapse
Dancing boogie-woogie in "Stilyagi", new Russian film by Valeri Todorovski
Until a few months ago, the authorities did not concern themselves with cinema in Russia.
Every year, the
