Lena, a 42-year-old teacher, lives in the Russian far east, in a city called Khabarovsk. For years she struggled to help her husband, Dmitri, overcome his alcoholism.
"Why do
Their dream was a poison which would kill a man instantly but which could not be found in a corpse's blood during the post-mortem examination. For years, the
Yuri Shchekochikhin seemed to have few worries about his own safety. He was the deputy editor of the democratic newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and a representative of the Yabloko opposition party
Russia's far east is the site of an experiment in government and social development led by Roman Abramovich, billionaire businessman and owner of Chelsea football club. Zygmunt Dzieciolowski,
The Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973 took place when the Soviet Union was at the height of its power. In that period, the average Homo Sovieticus found the middle
It is ten years since my first visit to Kinotavr, the Russian national film festival held annually in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Then, Boris Yeltsin was struggling to
Twenty years of travelling to and around Russia have given me plenty of thoughts to entertain myself with on the flights into Moscow. A favourite game is to try to
Anjani Kumar is a 23-year-old student at St Petersburg's Mechnikoff Medical Academy. As he was returning to his hostel one night, a group of youths attacked him, stabbing
It takes nearly thirty hours to travel from Moscow to the town of Krasnokamensk, 6,000 kilometres away. First there is a six-hour flight to Chita, then a six-hour wait
