Culture & Customs

Russia pulls hundreds of key statistics and shuts down most demographic data.

Russia bans the "International Satanism Movement," demonstrating the modern interpretation of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic "The Master and Margarita."

A 98-year-old veteran who moved to Russia from Latvia is the Kremlin's latest propaganda spotlight.

Serhiy Zhadan is the first Ukrainian to win the Austrian State Prize in European Literature.

The Duma is considering a bill to hold conscription year-round, making it harder for Russians to avoid the draft.

Russia is increasingly using its “rehabilitation of Nazism” law to punish for minor acts near war memorials.

The General Prosecutor's office proposed sending school bullies to temporary detention centers.

Pro-war bloggers are calling for a boycott of vacations in Turkey after it joined a drone coalition to aid Ukraine.

An easily-overlooked monument and museum outside Portland, Oregon, marks the site where three Soviet aviators completed the world's first transpolar flight.

Russia has become the first country to recognize Afghanistan's Taliban government.

Modern Russian literature is leveraging a science fiction trope to rewrite history.

A new Russian law would raise the drinking age from 18 to 21.