In challenging the West, Russia often shoots itself in the foot. It has done so again with the murder of Alexei Navalny on the cusp of a Ukraine vote in Congress. Moscow’s mistakes are so frequent or ...

As Russians remember the victims of the Stalinist purges, which reached fever pitch 75 years ago, a newly published database gives many Muscovites a chance to discover the chilling history on their ...

Champagne on tap, women without makeup, marches in the streets – these and other things surprised famous foreign visitors to the Russian capital. In Soviet times, not many foreigners got to see the ...

St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow. Legend has it that its builder was blinded post-construction so that a structure of its beauty could never be built again. (Photo by Vierro via Pexels) There's visual ...