The rule of law is dead. Even as a fiction the idea of law has been discarded: Just so much excess baggage thrown aside in the relentless, mindless pursuit of raw power.

It may not be the best-loved club in town, but it's certainly one of the most talked-about. It's that Dionysian den of dancing, DJs and door policy where half-meter-tall men dressed as a wood sprites roam the dancefloor and the 13th day of every month is a no-holds-barred party to rival the ones on New Year's Eve.

Old Moscow hands will remember Brasserie du Soleil in its heyday before the bottom fell out of the economy in 1998. The restaurant was an elegant -- and pricey favorite with the city's ex-pats.

One year after Valery Fokin opened his Meyerhold Center to the public with a small festival of his past productions, the director has unveiled his first show created in and for this new theater.

""Moorish?"" I was intrigued. ""You mean because of the coffee taste, which the Arabs brought to medieval Spain...?"" She looked at me very strangely. ""I mean MORE-ish. You eat one bite and then you want more.""

Part of the so-called Zolotoye Koltso, or Golden Ring of ancient cities encircling Moscow, Vladimir is a worthy city to stroll through and soak in the past.

Generations of children have grown up on the catchy verse and fables of Sergei Mikhalkov, who turned 89 this week, is a living legend.. His poem, ""Uncle Styopa the Policeman"" used to be part of the school curriculum, and every child throughout the Soviet Union knew it by heart.

It's taken nearly 18 months for Dracula -- the legendary Transylvanian who drinks human blood and is capable of transforming himself into a vampire bat -- to make it to Russia again.

On March 17 nearly 1,600 years ago, the man credited for converting Ireland to Christianity was laid to rest. A former pagan himself, he took the name Patrick when he converted to Christianity at the age of 16.

Actress Natalya Derzhavina, famous for her ongoing role as the voice of the ""Khryusha,"" or ""Piggy,"" puppet on a popular nighttime children's program, died Sunday night in Moscow. She was 60 years old.

Alexander Lobanov, a 78-year-old deaf mute and psychiatric patient, is one of two artists whose work is on display at an exhibit titled ""Weapons, Lenin, Stalin and Lobanov.""

Just because the days of finding antiques scattered amongst the markets of Moscow are over it doesn't mean you can't find interesting and valuable pieces at reasonable prices.

It was a tale of family loss that turned to tragedy. It began when Maria Laiko journeyed from her native Riga to Tbilisi in 1936 to mourn the death of her daughter Nora.

In Katerina: The Russian World of Katherine Mansfield, Joanna Woods presents the Russian perspective within the framework of a beautifully written general biography.