On Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants more than Donald Trump has been prepared to offer, writes the BBC's Russia Editor.

Battery-powered trains could be used more frequently after a successful trial by Great Western Railway (GWR). The rail ...

Bihar Firm Supplying Shoes To Russian Army. The company employs 300 individuals, 70 percent of whom are women.

In Russia, they decided to fight pseudo-shoe manufacturing: as early as May, the labeling operator, the Center for the Development of Advanced Technologies (CRPT), should compile a list of enterprises ...

A phlebologist has named the optimal heel height for women's shoes. According to the specialist, this figure should not exceed 5 centimeters. Phlebologist at Moscow's Yusupov Hospital Elena Smirnova ...

When a Russian needs more food or clothing than his ration card entitles him to buy, he can go to the special Torgsin stores which sell only for valuta (foreign money), if he has any valuta—a ...

Russian’s own goal. The government’s aim was to boost local shoe production. The result is that many shoe factories are failing. Why? First, because the legalisation of parallel imports decided by ...

Syrians waving a shoe at passing Russian military vehicles in Homs. The waving of the shoe traditionally is symbolic of an offensive insult.

The Moscow bimonthly Bolshevik reported a shortage not of shoes, not of black bread or tractors or clothes, not of roofs to sleep under—but of samovars.

Since Russia's war on Ukraine, Kremlin critics have been targeted by several laws in a bid to keep them quiet - from banning blue-and-yellow shoes to listening to Ukrainian music.