The world's newest and youngest crypto billionaire is from Russia and goes by Vitalik.

Yeliseyevsky Food Emporium in Moscow closes its doors after 120 years selling groceries in a completely incongruent physical space.

A dying Soviet "monotown" in the Arctic is saved by cryptocurrency mining and online pie stores.

While some countries are considering doing away with coin money, this Russian citizen is still making the most out of their rubles and kopeks. 

After one year of pandemic, Russia's economy is looking dandy while others are on the verge of collapse. Or so says new research.

In the Soviet era, NEP had always been regarded as a strange, only vaguely understood, and not very sensible chapter in Soviet history: a pause between the heroic Civil War and the no less heroic Five-Year Plans.

RIA Novosti's annual survey, ranking each Russian region by residents' quality of life, has some not-so-surprising results.

It’s plain sailing for the Russian Federation along the Northern Sea Route, thanks to melting ice caps.

Where we explore Russia’s oenophilic intentions and vine-driven tourism, rooted in the hills of Krasnodar Krai.

This week, your mother turns out to be right all along; Aeroflot adapts to COVID; and the European Commission says you can get good, free movies from Russian social media.

A recent survey of the elderly finds that one-fifth of pensioners hope to supplement their income with a blog.

“Not working at all is death… The authorities chose a blow worse than a lockdown. Any sane person understands that the coronavirus is terrible. But this does not mean that the coronavirus should kill an industry to the point that it cannot be restored in any way.”

- Alexander Konovalov, organizer of the “Map of Resistance,” a group of bars and restaurants in St. Petersburg that plan to defy new coronavirus restrictions calling to close all bars and restaurants from December 30 through January 3