Be careful! If dill and ‘kholodets’ don’t finish you off, vodka definitely will. Our readers share their personal experience of surviving all things Russian.

If you don’t like carrying cash, a trip to Russia won't be easy for you. Russians do use credit cards but they still live according to the rule: ‘Cash first.’

When the Nazis occupied the USSR in the early 1940s, they used millions of Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians as forced labor.

An American expat living in St. Petersburg decided to take his Russian girlfriend back to the U.S. for the holidays. On the plane ride over he tried to prepare her for what was to come.