Like it or not, global warming will affect Russia, and ignoring it only stores up problems for later.
Whether the EU likes it or not, millions of its residents belong to the Russophone cultural sphere. But how should we speak to them?
Russian officials apparently don’t care about their country’s shocking air safety record.
Richard Florida's 2002 book on the "creative class" has found an unexpectedly fervent following in Russia, but did that class ever exist here? Русский
Nine years after a series of coordinated attacks on government and military installations in and around Nalchik, Russia, 58 men have been convicted in a show trial worthy of the Stalin era.
There are more questions than answers to the Crimean ‘question’.
In hardship, people turn to religion for help. Ukraine today is no exception. But is it the answer to the country’s problems?
Teatr.doc – a pioneer of ‘New Drama’ in Russia – has recently been evicted from its basement home in Moscow. But is it all an act?
Спецобъект №110 – тайная тюрьма Сталина – находилась не в далекой Сибири, а под Москвой. in English
Special Facility No.110 – Stalin’s secret prison – wasn’t in remote Siberia, it was just outside Moscow. на русском языке
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili's decision on 4 November 2014 to dismiss Defence Minister Irakli Alasania provoked an immediate reaction both in and outside the country.
Russia’s Prison Service, the FSIN, wants to put inmates’ employment on a more businesslike footing, but their working conditions are still more like slave labour.
