Culture & Customs

Every year, people from all over the world convene in a small snowy town in northern Russia for the friendliest and fluffiest of sports events – started by an Orthodox nun in a wheelchair who had an idea... and a dog.

Why is Georgian food so popular in Russia? Turns out there's more to it than deliciousness.

What would the world be like without a wee boy, women, or whales in the wild? Definitely worse.

March 8 struggles with the duality of being the day of women and the day of “womanness.”

St. Petersburg is often thought to be a gray city, as it only has about 75 sunny days each year. Still, photographer Segrey Goorin finds inspiration here for his black and white photography, capturing street life, extraordinary locals and numerous parties. 
 

Life can be rocky, whether it’s because you can’t see a corgi movie, or because you’re a dead fictional character.

In which we look at how Russian painters have been inspired by Maslenitsa.

Learn some proverbs and eat some blini as the Slavic world prepares to celebrate Butter Week.

This year marks the 235th anniversary of the birth of Antonin Carême, a French chef who left his mark on Russian cuisine in the form of the dessert known in Russia as sharlotka and everywhere else as charlotte Russe.

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

An uptick in fox domestications leads us to consider a landmark experiment in Novosibirsk that upended assumptions about evolution.

No matter how many times I watch Diamond Arm («Бриллиантовая рука»), I never cease to wonder at the fact that this film managed to make it to screens all across the Soviet Union in April 1969.