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The Russian city of Yeniseysk turned 400 years old this August, an anniversary that the local government decided to celebrated with a bang. Paul Shields went there for the celebrations.

Is Russia planning to once again become Europe's breadbasket? September editorial by Zack Kramer.

Katherine Leung review Karl D. Qualls' Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951.

Agnieszka Widlaszewska takes a closer look at the two longest-serving presidents in Europe and that their relationship can tell us about the future for their respective countries.

Ivan Ivoylov on how the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan might affect the broader Central Asian region and what should be done to stop further conflict escalation.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin is pushing a plan to unify some of the country’s federal subjects, a move that will have great impact on the North Caucasian region and the [...]

"Euro 2020 is barely a week old, and it’s already clear that Russia and Ukraine airing their dirty laundry in public won’t be the only time politics and football collide during the tournament."

At the end of April, tension rose over a series of mysterious explosions in the village of Vrbětice seven years ago as Czech authorities revealed that they believe the Russian secret service to [...]

Some of the Russian Orthodox faith's most beloved saints are currently travelling through time and space. Article by Elodie Phillips.

“Not only is Manizha not Russian, but she’s not even a person, she’s… salt!” declared the professor, as he revealed the result of an experiment conducted on the pop star’s skeleton. The research [...]