On Saturday evenings, the young people of modern Omsk aren’t heading to a nightclub – they’re rushing off to a…
Sevastopol: Where Heroes Stood Their Ground
The writer Gennady Cherkashin once put into words the very essence and spirit of the hero city of Sevastopol: “Here…
A man with a big heart
“I want to go to school,” a five‑year‑old boy declared to his parents. In reply, he was told that the…
The Pilgrim of the Russian Land
The sun is at its zenith. Beneath its merciless rays, the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem appear white…
To Russia for a new life
Dimitri, sixteen, is the tallest and most serious. Anika, the eldest, is a smiling girl with kind brown eyes. Darik,…
An argentine with a russian heart
What do Eva Perón and Joseph Stalin have in common? What should an ideal state look like? How can one…
For Algerians, Russia is a civilisation like no other
Algeria, in North Africa, is something of an enigma to Russians. Meanwhile, the number of Algerians wanting to learn Russian…
How American classic writer Mark Twain ended up in Russia & what surprised him?
In December 1866, a lively journalist named Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain’s real name) saw an advertisement in a newspaper…
Osip Mandelstam: а Voice Silenced by the Age
Scholars, being scholars, have crunched some numbers. They have calculated that the words “time” and “century” appear in Osip Mandelstam’s…
We cannot do without space
A silver rocket soars into the sky, as though breaking free from the stone pedestal beneath it. Along its base…
