Culture & Customs

Roskomnadzor has blocked the largest Russian-language fanfiction site. 

The theater director and playwright have been in pre-trial detention for over a year on charges of "justifying terrorism." Now they've been sentenced.

A Moscow university hopes to create a social score system like China's. 

Posts by Russian emigres are used in state media to show the downsides of life outside of Russia. 

The Independent journal People of Baikal profiled the Batrakov brothers: one who's stateside, the other on the front lines of Ukraine.

Russia hosts a "rival" game this month in Kazan. 

Russia is now recruiting criminal suspects into the military.

The two remaining Russian visa centers in the US have been closed. 

Russians affected by “natural changes” wrote a record number of complaints to the president.

Nearly 200 tons of old blankets were sent to Ukraine via the Russian Post. But many have disappeared, and their recipient is elusive.

The Russian Chess Federation has been banned from international competition until 2026. 

The head of a Russian consumer protections ministry expressed glee at the exit of McDonald's from Russia.