Culture & Customs

The memorial on the building where journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered is constantly being destroyed and replaced.

In Russia's latest efforts to boost birthrates, St. Petersburg students who have children will be paid R200,000.

Reviewing a new volume of Chekhov's earliest work, on the writer's 166th birthday.

The European Fencing Championship was moved from Estonia after Russian athletes’ visas were denied.  

A prestigious Russian university is offering military contracts to fight in Ukraine to students at risk of expulsion.

A survival YouTuber has brought unusual internet attention to Yakutia.

  Russian airlines are bringing old aircraft back into service due to a shortage of more modern options.

A prison that once held opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been closed. He referred to it as a "concentration camp."

Russian churches are holding anti-abortion services, which will now become an annual event.

A review of Egana Djabbarova's powerful book about her troubled body. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated Christmas at a military church near Moscow. 

A court fined a bookstore chain for novels that contained "sexual anarchism."