Culture & Customs

Nearly 100 years ago, an impassioned adventurer undertook a seemingly impossible trek.

The Head of the Chechen State awarded his son a medal after he extrajudicially beat a prisoner accused of burning a Qu'ran.

On Vladimir Putin's birthday, citizens across Russia commemorated the seventeenth anniversary of independent journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder.

An "extremist" Russian rapper is fined for not reporting on his activities as a "foreign agent."

A pro-war concert promised great stars on the stage, but instead had only ultranationalist poets.

A murder convict sent to Ukraine in exchange for a pardon committed a gruesome crime after returning from the war.

As COVID-19 cases rise, the Russian White House is implementing a mask mandate.

Despite Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 35,000 Hassidic Jews went on a pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine, for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Finland has banned the entry of cars bearing Russian license plates.

The Kremlin is currently conducting not one, but two horrific wars.

Seventeen people were arrested in Cuba for tricking and trafficking men into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.

"Barbenheimer" fever has arrived in Russia. Cinemas are ready to bypass the government's restrictions and Hollywood copyright in creative ways.