Just two weeks prior to Russia's recent parliamentary elections, President Dmitry Medvedev went on television to make a hawkish anti-American speech. Whither the reset?

A few weeks ago our company, Russian Information Services, agreed to take over as publisher of Russian Life.

This week, depressing news about divisions and birth rates can only really be counteracted with a smile over the Orthodox church’s new take on sex.

Foreign workers, vodka decline, what Russians think of perestroika, and, of course, a Last Word.

Overlooked and under-read news from all over Russia.