By the time they graduated from high school, every Soviet pupil knew how to strip, assemble and fire small arms in the field.

Hard as it is to believe, half of Russians do not want Friday to become a day off.

There are over 500 wooden houses in Moscow, we picked the most spectacular of them.

Russia is still making its first steps in addressing the issue of sexuality and depicting it in a way that would make it believable on screen. Check out our selection of films to trace the evolution of eroticism in Russian cinema.