Culture & Customs

At a time when international travel has come to a screeching halt, I can think of little better service our magazine can provide than to take readers to far-flung places.

A new series has taken Russia by storm this summer. Set in a provincial Caucasian town, Chiki (Chicks) is about four girlfriends trying to escape their lives as sex workers and launch a fitness club – the first in the area.

News, quotes, and tidbits from all around Russia.

Some statistics to illustrate recent trends in Russian society.

Public transportation in Moscow is getting an electric facelift, but one trolleybus line will remain, in homage to this mode of transportation.

Forbes recently released a list of the highest-earning Instagram bloggers in Russia, several of whom use their account to share details of motherhood.

Some of Russia's less-traveled regions are hoping to grow a booming ecotourism sector.

This week Russians get diet advice, the president of Belarus gets kicked out of a neighboring country, and even cats aren't excused from social distancing.

The musical group is facing a 12 million ruble lawsuit for plagiarism.

A hospital in Kursk is under investigation after a woman awoke post-surgery in the morgue.

This week: Soviet-relic bunkers burst forth with new life; Soviet-relic vehicles get new life; and Soviet-relic apartments crack under the pressures of life.

The smallest ethnos in the Russian Federation is an Avar sub-culture in the Caucasus.