Culture & Customs

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.

Views of Sochi, five years after the close of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in that southern city.

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.

As Russia celebrates men on Defenders of the Fatherland Day, it encourages them to have more sex, for the sake of growing the population of the Fatherland. Just not at work.