Culture & Customs

A survey reveals the top gifts for Women's Day in 2024.

Women discuss their decisions to adopt a "matronymic," honoring their mothers, rather than the traditional Russian patronymic.

An online retailer removed books by Dostoyevsky, Murakami, Wilde, Sorokin, and others under the "LGBT Propaganda" law.

Immigration into Russia from Central Asian countries has slowed since the start of Russia's War on Ukraine.

Documentary photographer Dmitry Markov, renowned for his heartfelt portrayal of authentic Russia, has passed away.

Putin has gotten nothing he wanted from his War on Ukraine.

A poetic last word, a med student with guts, and a Trinity that wants for a home.

The war has increased cases of domestic abuse, yet in one instance things went in an entirely different direction.

A young woman in Nizhny Novgorod faces extremism charges for wearing rainbow earrings. 

The anti-war music group Bi-2 was held in Thailand, and Russian officials were not too hasty to bail them out. 

A gay Chechen man forced to out himself on camera vanished after the video went viral in 2022. Now, he tells his story.

Independent sociologists have sussed out what Russians really want from their government.