Culture & Customs

Russia Weekly gets wacky with singing policemen, forbidden emojis, and flying plagues.

Things worth knowing on the travel front.

This summer Russia’s biggest rock music festival, Nashestvie, faced cancellations by a number of artists who were protesting the festival’s increasing cooperation with the Russian military.

We interview a winemaker and philanthropist related to Rachmaninov, and explore her Tolstoyan connection to Californian soil.

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

After declensions, cases, aspect, verbs of motion, pronunciation, and all the other trials of the Russian language, there is one more thing to learn: quotes, jokes and allusions. Let's do this.

It's fall, which means mushroom season, which means time to get hunting. And cooking some Chanterelle-Apricot Muffins.

Time got a little bit wibbly-wobbly and timey-wimey as Russia traveled to the future, to the past, and back to the present (and all in one week)!

Falling from a Russian sky near you: airplanes, bags of money, and well-timed lightning bolts!

This week gives us a plethora of emotions: shame in Samara, excitement in Tomsk, and a bit of both in Moscow.

This is the crime-filled Russia you’ve always heard about, including a cat smuggling drugs and railroad theft.

Everybody receives a lift, from a stranded hiker, to the planet, to two boys who are actually doing just fine.