Two of our staffers, a certified historian and a borderline zoomer/faculty of journalism graduate, recently watched Hulu’s new TV show ‘The Great’, which fantasizes about the famous Russian empress Catherine the Great’s life. And they ended up with completely contradicting opinions about it.

Fall in Karelia, summer in Yakutia, winter in Moscow, spring in St. Petersburg… Check out the most popular Russian landmarks’ in seasonal metamorphoses.

The Soviet Union consisted of 16 republics, each of which had a unique local flavor, yet all of them were building communism together. What did it look like? Let’s take a look at the five Central Asian Soviet Socialist Republics: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Tajik.

There are plenty of dishes using vegetables as additional ingredients. In these recipes, however, they are the stars of the show!

‘Frau Black Death’ - this is how the Nazis referred to Evdokiya Zavaliy. Wounded four times, concussed twice, she was eventually awarded four battle orders, multiple medals, and even became an honorary citizen of eight European cities.