Heavy grey clouds enshroud Moscow. Darkness seems to get only slightly lighter at noon and then it drifts back to the usual black of the...

There is no train station in Barysh, the train just stops in the middle of a field. On arriving you jump straight into the mud. Trains...

Today, many communities across Russia are gathering together in their local town squares to burn women - straw ones. Those straw dolls...

I congratulate you with the first day of the calendar spring! I hope it’s already warm in your part of the world. In Russia, our spring...

Nothing seems difficult in the word “blue”, unless you’re Russian. In my native language we have two words for this colour — light blue,...

Happy Old New Year! Sounds absurd? Not in Russia! We love to celebrate the New Year so much that we celebrate it twice. Since 1918, our...

In Russia we don’t have Christmas Tree and Santa Claus, instead we have New Years Tree and Father Frost. It’s all started with Soviet...