Arts and life

Weekend plans

Travel the World With Your Taste Buds at Depo

Enjoy a day out away from the usual tourist spots at Depo, Moscow's new food hall featuring flavors from across the globe.
What's on

Celebrating the Luck of the Irish in Moscow

This month, the Irish Film Festival brings some of the best cinema from Ireland to Karo 11 Oktyabr Cinema.
Burning up

Pancakes Flip and Fires Roar over Maslenitsa 2019

Russia's lead-up to Lent came to an end with traditional bonfires across the country.
expat life

Broomball: Moscow's Wackiest, Toughest Sport

How to spend the long, cold Moscow winter? On the ice, chasing a ball with a broom, of course!
blini bewilderment

All the Pancakes and Parties of Maslenitsa in Moscow

Take a look at the wild festivities of Maslenitsa and dribble over the sight of these batter-based delights!
great music

March Music in Moscow

Moscow does stage extravaganzas so well that you might overlook the city's brilliant intimate concerts.
Local Holiday

How Many Blini Can You Eat?

The new trend in Russian cities is lavish celebration of religious and secular holidays.
Urban development

The Battle for Moscow

Once a gathering place for Russian literary titans, it is now under threat from developers.
New museum

Enter Solzhenitsyn's World

The newly opened Solzhenitsyn apartment museum invites you into the life of the writer and his world.
The Oscars

A Soviet Oscar Winner Restored

Snowstorm alert? No problem. Stream this 7-hour epic masterpiece.
Archive discovery

'Yiddish Glory' Rewrites History

An unknown part of Jewish and wartime history was found in an archive.
What to cook

The Definitive Beef Stroganoff

What you've all been waiting for - the best recipe for Beef Stroganoff ever.
Cutting-edge art

See Death and Life in Dzerzhinsk

A multi-media show about life in an industrial wasteland... that's fighting back.
City Break

Get Out of Town! Go to Tula

A weekend trip to Tula is just the break you need: art, museums, history, writers and hip hostelries and eateries.
Golden mask

Celebrate Russia On Stage

Check out the best in theater from all over Russia.
Looking back

A Look Back at 155 Years of the Moscow Zoo, in Pictures

From baby chimps and hippos to anti-aircraft guns during World War II, the Moscow zoo has had a rich 155-year history.
Retrospective

The Magical Light of Arkhip Kuindzhi

You still have time to see this exhibition of one of Russia's greatest 19th-century painters.
Hidden Moscow

Moscow’s Chinese Pearls

Moscow might not have a Chinatown, but it has plenty of Chinese culture. Here are ten of the best.
Chinese Muscovites

New Year, Old New Year and Chinese New Year

Is Russia's pivot to the East trickling down to the man and woman on the street?
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