Have you ever dreamed of spending a weekend in a house filled with bees or taking a snowmobile ride on a mountain range in the taiga? Find out what participants in the Far Eastern Hectare program have done with the land they received.

They are cheerful, they are spectacular, they bring positive energy - you simply gonna love them. What are the main Russian dances, why do people dance them and how can you learn to dance them?

Moscow’s most eminent architectural photographer, Naum Granovsky, took pictures of the city over several decades. We present some of his finest shots from the 1920s and 30s.

Soviet media was forbidden from reporting on a great number of crimes occurring in the country, so a large portion of the population had no idea of the kind of horrible stuff happening all around them on a daily basis.

Thrift shops are everywhere in Russia right now and there is a cultural explanation for it. Anna explains how Soviet culture of “not throwing anything away, because your kids might need it” continues to influence our daily life.