Not a single local ever fishes or swims here. Legend has it that a ‘dragon’ lives at the bottom. The deep blue waters of this stunning lake, hidden in Russia’s Caucasus mountains, are surrounded by ...

Hitler highly valued the Cossacks, describing them as an Aryan people and promising abundant rewards in the event of a German victory. Despite this, very few Soviet Cossacks went over to the Nazi side ...

Alexander Grishin/Global Look Press Moscow’s second best-known cathedral took 66 years to build, has seen three political regimes, was demolished and then rebuilt. On the 200th anniversary of its ...

Before the 1917 Revolution wiped the Russian Empire from the world’s map, there were several major uprisings that significantly shook the basis of the country and ...

Mayonnaise has traveled a long way from being an elegant French dressing to becoming a symbol of Russian cuisine. It has enjoyed a long run as Russia’s most beloved condiment, and there are no signs ...

From the Arctic Circle to Kazakhstan, from the western borders to the Far East — the Gulag system in Stalin's time encompassed the entire USSR. “Gulag” is often used to describe any Soviet prison or ...

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. In the beginning ...

The Russian state received a huge territory stretching to the upper Oka and Dnepr rivers with 19 border towns, including Chernihiv, Gomel, Novgorod-Siversky, and Bryansk. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

Global Look Press For Russians the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 is what the Battle of Patay is for the French, or the Battle of Britain is for the British. This is the first in a series of articles by ...

This is the story of how the mastermind behind MMM, Russia’s biggest financial pyramid scheme, managed to get elected to parliament while behind bars, how he declared war on the oligarchs and how he ...

Lines were a sign of the times - most goods were in short supply and their rare appearance on shelves in shops sometimes caused actual stampedes. In every Soviet food store one could almost always buy ...

The expression ‘Potemkin villages’ means anything made for the sole purpose of concealing the truth. The legend goes that during Catherine the Great’s journey to Crimea in 1787, Grigoriy Potemkin, the ...