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After years of threatening to ban cheap dormitory-like hostels and any other accomodation in residential buildings, Russian lawmakers have approved a measure that could cause many private individuals to stop renting out beds, driving up lodging costs for young travelers.

Today, now that the huge dome of St. Isaac’s towers over the center of the city, not far from the granite embankment, the sumptuous Senate and Synod Building, and the iconic Bronze Horseman statue, it is hard to imagine that in its first incarnation this church was much smaller and located on the Admiralty Meadow.

Paul Robeson, the American singer and actor and a political activist, had a cake named after him in Russia.

A photograph captured in 2018 in Red Square captures the moment with beauty and finesse.

Even when you do a good deed, you need to pay attention, or you may chart a new road to humility.

There was a time when literary journals ruled Russian intellectual life. That time has passed.

Other assorted items from around the Russian world.

In early May, everyone is feeling exhausted after a long, vitamin-deprived winter: schoolchildren are dragging themselves to the June 1 school-year finish line, and their parents are just starting to recover from the cold, dark winter. That’s when the holidays hit.

In the spring of 1989, elections were held: “alternative elections.” This redundant phrase, which today provokes smirks, back then had everyone in a state of euphoria. We had a choice!

In which we use one of the most beloved songs from a classic film to make some points about genitive case. Get singing!

In which an artist tries to get out of a job illustrating a brochure and ends up getting sucked into a Pushkin meme vortex.

On the eastern tip of Crimea is a mysterious, salty lake. We take you there.