Culture & Customs

Serhiy Zhadan is the first Ukrainian to win the Austrian State Prize in European Literature.

The Duma is considering a bill to hold conscription year-round, making it harder for Russians to avoid the draft.

Russia is increasingly using its “rehabilitation of Nazism” law to punish for minor acts near war memorials.

The General Prosecutor's office proposed sending school bullies to temporary detention centers.

Pro-war bloggers are calling for a boycott of vacations in Turkey after it joined a drone coalition to aid Ukraine.

An easily-overlooked monument and museum outside Portland, Oregon, marks the site where three Soviet aviators completed the world's first transpolar flight.

Russia has become the first country to recognize Afghanistan's Taliban government.

Modern Russian literature is leveraging a science fiction trope to rewrite history.

A new Russian law would raise the drinking age from 18 to 21.

A LGBT rights activist asserts that homophobic groups from Russia are still persecuting her in exile in Lithuania.

Karolina Pavlova struggled to find literary acclaim as a woman in the 19th century, but her work endures.

Russians are spending an increasing amount of time on domestic social media.