How do you win over the village beauty who has a thing for animals? Kolya is determined to find out.

Some off-the-cuff dacha recipes for you (summer seems like too relaxed a time for exacting recipes).

It was Nikolayev’s birthday, which in ordinary years would always start bright and early... but this was no ordinary year...

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

Belarusian Alexei Usikov has invented a new vehicle – a horsemobile, with the mighty horsepower of one horse.

Nikita Khrushchev’s great granddaughter, Nina Khrushcheva, and an expat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Jeffrey Tayler, offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth.

The post-holiday doldrums must not exist in Russia, where we find stories of hope, change, and a mayor that cares.

The Australian edition of 60 Minutes traveled to Oymakon last winter and brought back this story. 

In Russia, valenki are as near as you can get to the country's number-one footwear after regular leather boots.

In which the Rural Council takes up the case of “The Conduct of Nikolayev, N. N.”

Fishing can tell you a lot about life in the countryside, about sickness and health, chance and Fate, to say nothing of electricity and sausage

When the district medic comes around, the stage is set for a skirmish between modern and traditional medicine.