MOSCOW (AP) — For many fans of food and football, a World Cup in Russia is unfamiliar territory. Russian cuisine has a reputation for being stodgy, unimaginative fare. While that may have been true ...

Instead of traditional toys and tinsel, there are sweets and garlands of dried fruits tied with ribbons: the Russian style ...

Kalmanovich, 30, literally grew up with Russian fashion, surrounded by the fanciful costumes her mother created for a small Moscow musical theater. She went on to study at the Zaitsev Fashion Lab, ...

Part of the beauty of a kokoshnik tiara is just saying the name out loud. Kokoshnik. It conjures a lost Nicholas and Alexandra world of bodies dripping in old mine-cut diamonds doesn’t it? One more ...

Russia’s scientific community may have experienced a “brain drain” over the past twenty years but the fundamentals of the famous soviet science are still in place, and Putin’s government is ...

Every April, in the households of Jewish families, we know that Passover is coming. The holiday that defines our freedom as a people is integral to our history and has become a symbol for our ...

U.S. special operations forces are looking to manufacture their own own Russian-style firearms domestically — and the Russians have responded with an oh hell nyet. In April 2017, U.S. Special ...

A new law went into effect in Tajikistan on April 29 that bans giving newborn babies last names with Russian-style endings. Tajiks often Russify their surnames when the nation was part of the Soviet ...