Mexicans don’t know what Russians are like. They’ve only ever seen blue-eyed blondes in neighboring California. Muscovite Vasilisa Malinka talks about what she misses and what she likes about living in the small town of Mexicali on the US border.

Locals believe that those who enter the “city of the dead” in Russia’s North Caucasus region will never return. However, this necropolis with the remains of over 10,000 people is a tourist hotspot.

Shortages of many goods during the Soviet period led to some unique—and sometimes unwanted—environmentally friendly behaviors. We can bring these habits back now to cut down on waste.

How did children in aristocratic families learn about sex, and was the famous phrase that there is no sex in the USSR true?