You can find lots of unique and unexpected things when you take a trip into the woods in search of edible mushrooms, but a camel in Nizhny Novgorod seems to be the most outlandish find yet.  

Archaeologists have just completed digging through layers of cultural strata in the middle of the Kremlin, unearthing some interesting finds they totally forgot were down there.

Russia's independent press faces innumerable pressures. Former Russian Life Editor Mikhail Ivanov (1995–2003) describes how economic issues have long plagued the Russian media system.

A decade has passed since an entire Russian professional hockey team was lost in a moment.

A normally quite peaceful board game took a violent turn in Krasoyarsk.

A new ranking shows that 4% of the world's best chefs come from Russia. 

As policy dictates, election staff must now dispose of unused ballots in Russia's State Duma elections – and you’ll find that some have been cutting corners. Chainsaw, anyone?

In which a Russian priest becomes a hockey referee and begins to transform the sport. 

If you love the sea, Ivan Aivazovsky is your man. Everyone should know about this Armenian-Russian painter.

Roskomnadzor seems to have a funny bone to pick with the Sverdlovsk government publication Oblastnaya Gazeta, blocking their website in delayed reaction to a questionable text.

Andrei Borodulin, the writer and photographer who penned "Gone Fishing," an article about the Volga River delta for our September/October issue, sent us this fantastic short video captured while reporting that story.

It seems that vampires aren't the only creatures who choose to sleep in coffins; drunk Russians do, too.