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Butterfly wings for politicians’ faces

January 7, 2012 Valentin Bayukansky
Artist Vadim Zaritsky uses a very unusual material for his paintings – butterfly wings. His works include portraits of renowned political figures and fellow artists as well as landscapes and still lifes

Valenki: A Russian necessity

January 7, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
The iconic Russian felt boots, valenki, are very popular, and even essential in the countryside due to the country’s severe climate. Today many valenki are made in the villages of the Altai Region

Music within the law

January 6, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Street musicians in the Russian capital face new regulations, supposedly intended to bring Moscow in line with major Wester cities

Take a spin on the ice

January 6, 2012 Tatyana Shramchenko
Russians love to ice skate, and residents of Moscow have a new venue to enjoy this pastime – the largest ice rink in Europe now open in Gorky Park

Vyatskoye: Telling the story of Russian village life

January 5, 2012 Elena Bobrova
It seems illogical to leave Yaroslavl for Vyatskoye. Yaroslavl is a UNESCO world heritage site boasting monasteries and house-museums. Vyatskoye is just a village. But it looks like a museum complex of 18th and 19th century rural Russia

Art or Vandalism?

January 5, 2012 Prokhor Kolosov
What is the distinguishing feature of Russian graffiti?

Struggling with snow

January 4, 2012 Moritz Gathmann
Russians are well-versed in coping with winter

Snowflakes are falling upwards

January 3, 2012 Daria Gonzales
Russians tend to believe that the way you celebrate New Year’s Eve will determine how you spend the new year

Orthodox Russian London

January 3, 2012 Phoebe Taplin
There's no better time to visit beautiful Orthodox Russian churches in London than for an Orthodox Christmas service, held in early January

Celebrating New Year's Day on the rails

January 2, 2012 Alex Jude
Alex Jude, an English teacher, translator and blogger living in Omsk, talks about his New Year experience in Russia. He happened to celebrate the New Year in a train heading to Caucasus

The Russian party bus

January 2, 2012 Patrick Sewell
What do Santa Claus, pine trees and presents have in common? Obviously the answer is Christmas – but not in Russia

Escape to the USSR: Kim Philby's secret documents revealed

January 1, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
We publish the secret notes Kim Philby with about the circumstances surrounding his wife, Eleanor, when he fled from Beirut to the USSR in 1963. These were declassified especially for the book about Philby written by Nikolai Dolgopolov

The secret life of legendary spy

January 1, 2012 Nikolai Dolgopolov
To commemorate the 100th birthday of double agent Kim Philby, a new book about him has been published by Russian journalist Nikolai Dolgopolov. Below is an extract from the book – an interview with a high-ranking officer of the Soviet Intelligence, w

Exiled to Russia: double agent Kim Philby

January 1, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
To commemorate what would have been his 100th birthday, a new book on double agent Kim Philby has been published by award-winning Russian journalist and writer Nikolai Dolgopolov

The tree debate: real or fake?

December 30, 2011 Elizaveta Shevchenko
As Russia readies itself for New Year and Russian Christmas next weekend, the tree debate has grown — real or artificial?

From translator to novelist and activist

December 29, 2011 Konstantin Milchin
Grigory Chkhartishvili had a successful career as a translator before he became the famous mystery writer Boris Akunin. But now he may be taking on another challenge – opposition politics

The two sides of Russian football

December 29, 2011 Pyotr Kuznetsov, Kommersant
Landmark achievements and high profile scandals made 2011 an interesting year for Russian football

Easy, fashionable looks in for 2012

December 28, 2011 Alyona Samarina
Russian designer Vlad Lisovets gives some tips on how Russian women can improve their look for the New Year

All I want for New Year

December 27, 2011 Yelena Barysheva, The Ogoniok magazine
“Ogonyok” magazine asked Muscovites what they hope to receive this holiday season

Soviet propaganda comes to America

December 24, 2011 Xenia Grubstein
Soviet Posters from World War II enliven a Chelsea gallery in New York
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