Linda Bortoletto spent two months with eight reindeer herders, two cooks, and 2,000 reindeer in a stunning landscape ringed by rivers and mountains.

Migrant workers are committing fewer crimes in Moscow, but those they do commit are getting more serious, the city's chief prosecutor said Friday.

Yale professor David Chambers has been a participant or catalyst in several projects bringing Russian and American theater cultures together, building on his connection to Russia and Russian theater that runs deep personally as well as professionally.

The demonstrations in December were middle-class phenomena, but estimates vary as to just how big Russia's middle class is.

Having finally becoming an adequate downhill skier—albeit after 16 years of bruises, strains and embarrassing falls on the flat—it was time to try the outdoor exercise of choice in Moscow.

If you live in Moscow long enough, you get used to dreadful service. The scowling cashiers, the flippant waiters—everyone has their horror stories. But generally, you get over it.

Late last year, Russian government announced a multi-billion dollar plans to improve infrastructure, train specialists and launch major advertising campaign to attract tourists to Russia. This year the Moscow state government has taken the initiative and launched an international advertising and promotional program to promote Moscow as a tourist destination in various international markets.

Despite repeated promises by senior Moscow officials and the explicit provisions of several laws, Russian draftees are being sent to fight and die in the hotspots of the North Caucasus, a situation a major Moscow paper is calling attention to and one likely to spark both more resistance to the draft and more questions about Russia's policies in that region.

Enraged after a Gypsy woman saw a stint in the slammer in his future, a Kemerovo man stabbed two people to death.