Culture & Customs

Chechnya is banning music that falls above or below approved tempos. 

North Korea hopes to host vacationing Russians in a "tourist zone."

A Tatarstan deputy proposed drafting nightclub attendees throughout Russia every Friday.

Russian artists painting a Navalny mural in Buenos Aires were interrupted by police after multiple complaints.

The President of the Russian Olympic Committee has labeled Russian athletes competing at the Paris games as "foreign agents."

From pressuring teens to abort to denying requested abortions, orphanages in Russia often mishandle pregnancy cases. 

The Ministry of Defense plans to draft 300,000 soldiers to encircle Kharkiv, Ukraine, according to independent news outlet Vyorstka.

In honor of the full solar eclipse visiting us in 2 weeks, we offer a few things Anton Chekhov had to say about eclipses that passed through his life.

How have Russian women's lives changed in the two years since the beginning of Russia's War on Ukraine?

A recommendation on how many pancakes you should eat during Maslenitsa.

A century after it first opened, the Jewish Museum in Moscow recreated an exhibit of Jewish avant-garde artists from Chagall to Shterenberg. 

Indian authorities uncovered a human trafficking network that tricked its citizens into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.