It was referred to as “The Land of Towns”, “Land of the Netherworld” and “Land of Sarmats”… What else?

Seemingly innocuous quadcopters can engage in industrial espionage or even cause serious physical harm.

Today, they are acknowledged as masterpieces, and Russian literature would be unthinkable without them, but there was a time when these books were not allowed to appear in print and were circulated illegally in samizdat copies.

These works by legendary Soviet photographers have sold for thousands of dollars at auctions around the world.

You probably had no idea about these tell-tale signs that let Russians know you are a foreigner. Warning: we find some of these rather bizarre too!