According to the Primary Chronicle, in 862 Rurik and his brothers were invited by the tribes of Chuds, Ilmen Slavs, Krivichs and Veses to rule in Veliky Novgorod ...

In the spring of 1992, a Russian man knocked on the doors of the UK Embassy in Riga, Latvia. From the bottom of his bag, he pulled out a sample of classified files he had allegedly smuggled out of ...

The German revolutionary who fought for women's rights was very popular in the USSR. Having fled from the Nazi regime, she spent the last days of her life in Moscow, and was buried with honors at ...

Food products and raw materials for their production made up 7.2% of Russia's export commodity structure in the first ten months of 2021. In terms of value, exports increased by 21.1%, while ...

Kira Lisitskaya (Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/Sputnik; Legion Media; Ural-66, Yolya, Ivtorov CC BY-SA 4.0) Hearty soups, tender desserts, fluffy pastry… Russian cuisine includes a huge number of dishes ...

Forests are what you'll see out of the train window for most of your journey on the Trans-Siberian. Sometimes this landscape of endless lines of trees outside the train window does not change for ...

In 1966, at a Sotheby’s auction, Marjorie Post bought the 1884 imperial crown of the Romanovs, made of silver, diamonds and velvet. Its journey to Hillwood was circuitous: in 1926, the treasure ...

Tobolsk appeared on the Russian map during the conquest of Siberia: In 1582, under the leadership of Yermak Russian troops occupied the Siberian Khanate’s capital of Kashlyk and, in 1587, a few ...

Soviet Union, the Congress of Soviets, Soviet of Federation – the word has been and is still widely used in Russia, but what does it exactly mean?

During the 70 years of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the number of constituent parts changed, but most of the time there were 15 of them. Here is the list.

Dmitry Tarasov, General Director of Kalashnikov, told Russian media that Rosguard forces have adopted both basic and special modifications of the pistol (MPL and MPL1, respectively). Among the ...

On May 5, 2021 (The movie will be translated into foreign languages by June 16, 2021 - ed), the Russian New Year historical melodrama ‘Silver Skates’ was released under the Netflix Originals ...