I recently translated an artwork — not the text written to it, not the text in it, but the actual artwork — that is also a legal document, which for its author, Yury Albert, is par for the course.

The 200-kilogram hog was aggravated by the stink of booze emanating from the luckless thief, police say.

Our staff photographers have shared their favorite shots from one of the world's largest, fastest and most architecturally stunning underground transport systems.

“Kitchen,” a weird, wild and wonderful force of nature that was commissioned by Oleg Menshikov — Russia’s one and only true matinee idol —was a monstrous hit when it premiered in 2000, and suddenly new plays were the hot item in Russian theater.

The far eastern republic’s mixed economy, which made use of both market forces and state capitalism, might have allowed it to become one of the most developed regions of Russia and Northeast Asia.