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Russian actress wins kudos in D.C.

May 7, 2012 Nora FitzGerald
Artistic directors from Georgia and actors from Russia create original theater in a family atmosphere in the most unlikely city

Moscow’s rat catchers to exterminate Russia’s political plague

May 4, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Alexander Terekhov, will be in New York for Read Russia, June 1-8 at the Book Expo in New York. His recently translated satirical fantasy “The Rat Catcher” is not for the squeamish

Russian writers find themselves at home in Dystopia

May 3, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
Contemporary Russian writers explore dystopias in wildly inventive ways. But what are they really getting at?

Angry birds in the hunger games

May 2, 2012 Andrei Molodykh, Russky Reporter
Goose fighting competitions become a popular diversion in rural Russia

Buckwheat: Russia’s miracle food

May 1, 2012 Jennifer Eremeeva
Century follows century featuring war, famine, revolution, and other catastrophes. The Russians just keep on trucking. How ever do they manage it?

Russian films look abroad

April 30, 2012 Paul Duvernet
The Russian cinema industry is seeking a strategy for exporting its films more effectively. Some of the solutions proposed by Fond Kino (‘the Cinema Fund’) involve reducing prices, improving training and stimulating co-productions

Depicting Russia's lost generation

April 30, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
A recent translation of Andrei Gelasimov’s “Thirst” brings this spare and original novelist, who Russians have compared to J.D. Salinger, to English-language readers

Russian riders to perform at Diamond Jubilee

April 27, 2012 Tatyana Shramchenko
Russian jockeys from the Kremlin Equestrian Riding School will perform at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the coronation of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in early May

Komsomolsk: Taiga to high tech

April 27, 2012 William Brumfield
Founded 80 years ago, Komsomolsk-on-Amur is one of those towns whose very existence begs the question: Why is it here at all?

Russia to launch round-the-world trip

April 27, 2012 Marina Darmaros
Russian sailors, cadets and rock musicians are planning to sail around the world, cross three oceans and visit 21 countries to mark Russia’s anniversary

Post-modern espionage

April 26, 2012 Daria Alyukova
The new movie "Spy" is being screened in London as part of the SLOVO Russian Literature Festival

Russian writing goes down a storm in London

April 26, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
The London Book Fair 2012 has revealed how western perceptions of Russian literature are being transformed with the exciting range of new contemporary works that are now reaching international audiences

Off the beaten track: hidden Russia revealed

April 25, 2012 Roger Williams
A major investment program is helping to transform Russia’s more remote regions into world-class tourist destinations

The way we were: Communism revisited

April 24, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Statues, buildings and smaller mementoes of the recent past have been preserved as a reminder of Communist times

High hopes for Isinbaeva at London

April 24, 2012 Nikolai Dolgopolov
Double Olympic gold medalist Yelena Isinbaeva nearly quit the sport but she’s expected to make a strong challenge in London

The books kept them up all night

April 23, 2012 Svetlana Borisova
Last weekend a group formed online to organize an event in which libraries and cultural centers would stay open until dawn

NY-based Ballet competition launches young careers

April 21, 2012 Anna Andrianova
Many children take ballet lessons as part of their education or for exercise. Few choose it as their life’s passion

Russia’s 12 oldest ancient monuments

April 20, 2012 Dmitry Kikot
In this latest installment of the Russian Dozen, RBTH explores six monuments from the time when Russia was inhabited by early primitive peoples, and six ancient Christian monuments created by the ancestors of the Russians

Plans to set the Thames on fire

April 19, 2012 Nikolai Dolgopolov
Russia hopes of bringing home gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Internet gives Russian cinema a bigger audience

April 18, 2012 Daria Gonzales
The Third Double Dv@ Internet Film Festival focusing on fiction film hopes to introduce new Russian cinema to a wider audience.
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