Russians describe the 90s in three words.

In academia, how do Russians and Americans view one another?

Chechnya is banning music that falls above or below approved tempos. 

A century after it first opened, the Jewish Museum in Moscow recreated an exhibit of Jewish avant-garde artists from Chagall to Shterenberg. 

A psychic from Kotelnikovo defrauded a client out of R67 million.

A playwright and a theater director were arrested for a play criticizing ISIS. After months in jail, they spoke from their defendants' glass box.

Putin has gotten nothing he wanted from his War on Ukraine.

A young woman in Nizhny Novgorod faces extremism charges for wearing rainbow earrings. 

The anti-war music group Bi-2 was held in Thailand, and Russian officials were not too hasty to bail them out. 

A Krasnoyarsk Zoo hedgehog has predicted an early spring.

When everyone wants you to focus on the now, but you are still reckoning with what is missing

Memes generated by Russia's stark new reality are affecting language and usage.