Evidently, sick burns can get you into trouble in Russian legal court— even if they are delivered in a dead language.

In honor of Maslenitsa, Russian health experts encourage citizens to limit their intake of one of the holiday's most beloved foods. 

The hoopla surrounding a new monument at a controversial location in central Moscow highlights the importance of history for Russia – and ourselves.

All charges against a group of snowmen, embroiled in a recent controversy, have been dropped.

Sredneuralsk Monastery becomes an action-packed place as police enter in search of a murder suspect.

Brought to Russia in the seventeenth century, eggplant caviar became wildly popular after a Soviet comedy movie. A Russian blogger shares her story.

With Russian teenagers in mind, plans are being made for "The First All-Russian Festival of Patriotic Rap." 

Leningrad Oblast's military commissioner has a solution to those pesky exes: send them to the army.

Leave it to Russia to come up with the absolutely most punk-rock way to remove snow. 

Tired of having to do Valentine's Day and Mother's Day separately? Try it the Russian way and combine them into International Women's Day! A closer look at this convenient holiday's socialist origins and not-so-socialist present form.

The Soviet satirical magazine Crocodile, which ran from 1922 until the 2000s, was both a government tool for propaganda as well as space for artists, comics, and writers to engage in hard social and political critique.

Surprisingly, a two-bedroom Russian apartment does not make an appropriate habitat for this 13-foot long python.