He loved playing pool and even made the losing side climb under the table as punishment.

In Russia, most foreign movies are dubbed. But some theaters show films with their original soundtrack accompanied by Russian subtitles – so it’s a great opportunity for you to improve your Russian (and for your non-Russian speaking friends to understand something!) while watching the movie.

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers what remains of one of the upper Volga’s most charming historic towns.

The bizarre habit of putting up fences is actually an addiction, and we are trapped in it.

They were awarded the highest honor and became “Heroes of the Soviet Union”. However, greed, lust, cowardice, and sometimes just ill fate made it impossible for them to keep their title after the war.