For political prisoners like Kara-Murza, life in Russia’s penal colonies is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, sleep deprivation, insufficient food, health care that is poor ...

Russia is a great country of 142 million people, clever people, people that read books, who like theater. It’s got a fantastic musical tradition. But what’s happened in the kind of post-Soviet ...

A Russian photographer explores her ancestral ... In the cold of March, villagers provide food and warmth to semi-feral horses like this pregnant mare. Later in the year, hunters load horses ...

Life expectancy in Russia is expected to reach 73.18 years ... will require concessions "In order to achieve objectives like the one that needs to occur in Ukraine, it is important for everyone ...

MOSCOW, September 12. /ITAR-TASS/. The death rates in Russian prisons are 2.3 times down death rates in Russia in general, said Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Execution of Sentences ...

An astounding compilation of primary source documents dealing with all aspects of Jewish daily life in the Russian empire This book makes accessible—for the first time in English—declassified archival ...

Russia's economy has been diminished by its invasion of Ukraine, and it could end up looking like it did at the end of the Cold War era as critical components of growth deteriorate, according to ...