Europe

What do foreign women working in Russia really think about their Russian counterparts? It seems universally accepted that Russian women are beautiful, but what do ……Read More

Transportation: Building a mile of road in Russia costs almost six times as much as in the U.S. or E.U. An imposing post-Soviet bureaucracy and ……Read More

A 34-Year old  Saudi prince has been convicted of murder at the Old Bailey today, Tuesday 19 October, following a three-week trial. Saud Bin Abdulaziz ……Read More

Reading Elena Fanailova’s poems reminds one that in the end, words win somehow. Her best poems are like small, shard-like visions that scrape away and ……Read More

After three wars and Stalinist repression, what does minimal losses to cultural heritage mean? Hundreds of thousands of artifacts are missing from Russian museums, a ……Read More

Gazprom’s planned baroque Okhta Center has local residents and UNESCO concerned Monuments to Russia’s new power and wealth have been sprouting up and testing the ……Read More