Natives of Italy, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were very active in the U.S. labor movement. They were anarchists and, amid American strikes in the late 1910s, led a volunteer investigation ...

Russian exports in the first ten months of 2021 totaled $388.4 billion, an increase of 42.8% over the same period last year, according to the Russian Federal Customs Service (FCS).

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/Sputnik; Legion Media; Ural-66, Yolya, Ivtorov CC BY-SA 4.0) Hearty soups, tender desserts, fluffy pastry… Russian cuisine includes a huge number of dishes ...

"In America, it is known by the fancy word ‘deaccession’ and is considered a normal procedure. In Russia, it is seen as a sell-off, and those who allowed it both before and after the ...

Tobolsk appeared on the Russian map during the conquest of Siberia: In 1582, under the leadership of Yermak Russian troops occupied the Siberian Khanate’s capital of Kashlyk and, in 1587, a few ...

Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets, Soviet of Federation – the word has been and is still widely used in Russia, but what does it exactly mean?

In the beginning there were four independent republics that signed the declaration of the creation of the USSR, or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in 1922.

“It is autumn 2004 and it’s raining. Tatyana Bakalchuk, an English language teacher, travels the length of Moscow by public transport - first by metro, then on the bus, then 10 minutes on foot ...

Russians have a particular fondness for old cemeteries where famous people are buried. So when Russians travel abroad, they’re likely to seek out the final resting places of their eminent ...

Forsaken island. There are about 15,000 Aleuts in the world today, the overwhelming majority of whom live in Alaska. In Russia, only 300 Aleuts remain, making them one of the smallest indigenous ...

Bliny are known as one of the main traditional Russian dishes. There are many variations: sweet, salty, with topping, crepe cakes or pies, crepe-rolls. All can be served with all kinds of ...

Prince Philip’s maternal roots lie in the Battenberg family, which formed when a German Prince serving in the Russian Imperial Army fell in love with his sister’s lady-in-waiting.