The events described in Netflix’s ‘The Last Czars,’ i.e. the Russian revolution and the murder of the Russian Imperial family, were in reality so complex and multi-layered they simply cannot ...

The Bolsheviks sought to erase all street names associated with the tsarist regime and started to rename places in order to commemorate leading ...

Russian exports in the first ten months of 2021 totaled $388.4 billion, an increase of 42.8% over the same period last year, according to the Russian Federal Customs Service (FCS). This growth is ...

From a 17th century priest’s biography and Pushkin’s prose to modern writers - these translations of both contemporary and classic books are ...

One of Russia's advantages is its ability to mobilize and equip more troops than the US in a short time frame. According to Hamilton, this is because Russia has a conscription (more precisely ...

Forests are what you'll see out of the train window for most of your journey on the Trans-Siberian. Sometimes this landscape of endless lines of trees outside the train window does not change for ...

Lush, toasty and easy to eat on the go! This pastry has won the hearts of Russians since the Middle Ages!

Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets, Soviet of Federation – the word has been and is still widely used in Russia, but what does it exactly mean?

During the 70 years of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the number of constituent parts changed, but most of the time there were 15 of them. Here is the list.

Coming to Russia, you soon realise that it is a little more extreme than you expected. This is especially true of its geography: just when you think ...

Oddly, some of the richest men of the Empire sympathized with the revolutionary cause.

Since its establishment in 1860, the Russian Compound in Jerusalem has undergone many makeovers and ownership changes.