McDonald's Celebrates 26 Years in Russia

The scaled-back event went ahead with no military hardware, in a first since 2008.

The largest nuclear disaster in history sent political shockwaves across the U.S.S.R.

This collection of photos from the MT archives captures what everyday life looked like in Russia under Yeltsin and in the early years of Putin.

One of the world’s most celebrated opera and ballet stages has surviving fire, revolution, world wars, the Soviet collapse and the rise of Vladimir Putin...