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Ever wonder what we don’t publish? Well, here it is. The scraps on our cutting room floor, and last week’s fourth-best story – all collected in one wonderfully semi-interesting place.

If you’re here for Halloween spooks, we can’t help you: all we’ve got this week are feel-good stories!

To thank (blagodarit) is one of the Russian language's most beautiful words. We go in for a deep dive.

Quotes, quips and asides spoken by those in the know (and not).

Ukraine will soon have its own independent Orthodox church, fueled by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The writer Eduard Uspensky passed away recently. In this language section, we look back at one of his contributions to Russian literature and folklore.

A look back at year end stock-taking, at changes that have been promised in years past, and promises that have been un-kept.

Bloggers and twitterers this fall, in the lead-up to the mayoral elections, were effusive in their praise of Moscow living conditions. Was it real or staged?

A longtime businessman with deep ties to Russia considers the passing of a true friend, in the context of deteriorating US-Russian relatins.

What is most important is to keep telling the individual stories, making human connections, sharing the important ideas that we meet.

What's news on the travel front.

In which we review The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessions from Russian Literature, by Viv Groskop, and Restless Empire, by Ian Barnes.