Valeriya (left) and Mikhail Bajan Mikhail and Valeriya Bajan from the Russian city of Tver decided to move to the countryside in 2012. Both in their early twenties with degrees in law and ...

By Alexander LarinOn August 26, 1898, 1,126 Russian Doukhobors arrived at the port of Larnaca on the French steamship Le Douro from Georgia.After completing quarantine, 560 Doukhobors rented a ...

Russian has long been the first language for ... “That was because Ukrainian was perceived as a peasant language that did not have any high culture associated with it, and because there were ...