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Russian Movie Night: History on Screen

Ready for a weekend of binge-watching? How about an entertaining refresher course in Russian history?

5 Old Russian Games: Party Like It's 1897!

Bored children? Energy levels peaking? Cat and mouse to the rescue.

Nicholas II’s Backside Breaks the Internet With Resurfaced Skinny-Dipping Photos

Kim Kardashian who?

colorful history

Russian Photo Colorist Brings New Life to Historic Photographs

A former German language professor shows the true colors of Russia's history — from imperial royalty to ordinary Soviet citizens.

insulted culture

A New Movie Transports Anastasia Romanov to 1980s America. Russians Aren’t Happy About It.

Russian viewers say “Anastasia: Once Upon a Time” mocks one of the most tragic episodes in their country’s history.

sensitive trial

Russian War Historian Jailed 12 Years for Treason

Andrei Zhukov was arrested on suspicions linked to “the history of the Russian Armed Forces and his vigorous activity online.”

ancient siberians

Siberian Farmer Unearths Neolithic Burial

The finding could be part of a burial ground dating back 7,000 years.

historic forensics

Investigators Re-Confirm Last Russian Royal Family’s Remains

The Russian Orthodox Church still does not accept that the remains found are those of the Romanov family.

re-evaluated legacy

Alaskan Town to Relocate Russian Founder’s Statue Over ‘Racial Division’

Locals petitioned to move Alexander Baranov's statue over an assault on a local indigenous group he led in the early 1800s.

On This Day in 1976 the Moscow Helsinki Group Was Founded

Today, during the coronavirus pandemic, the group continues to protect Russians’ human rights

opinion Dmitry Yakushkin

The True Meaning of Victory Day

Today some shout “We can do it again!” But in those days the motto was “Never again.” A new war was unthinkable.

He said, he said

Russia and Poland’s Holocaust War of Words, in Quotes

Moscow and Warsaw are at odds over the causes of World War II and the Holocaust.

north of the wall

Putin to Revive Russia’s ‘Great Wall’

The 17th-century defensive wall ran for 800 kilometers through southern and central Russia.

Russian Archaeologists Uncover Rare Amazon Warrior Women Burial

“We have come across an enigma,” the expedition's lead researcher said.

Old Moscow and St. Petersburg Through an American Photographer's Lens

Colorized photos show a long-gone side of Soviet Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In Photos: Everyday Life in Postwar Leningrad

By looking at these photos, one would hardly guess that the Siege of Leningrad had ended just two years earlier.

20 years of putin

‘He Tried to Fire Putin Twice’: Yeltsin’s Chief of Staff Remembers the 1990s

Valentin Yumashev has made headlines for his candid quotes about Putin's rise to power.

Historians Unmask Fourth Soviet Spy in U.S. Manhattan Nuclear Project

Oscar Seborer’s secret life showed “how widespread espionage was” in the U.S. atomic bomb program.

1 in 4 Young Russians Haven’t Heard of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – Poll

A majority of 18- to 24-year-olds surveyed said they “don’t care” about the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago.

Moscow Re-Enacts Famous 1941 Military Parade on Red Square

Some 4,000 people put on their most historically accurate uniforms to re-enact the famous Soviet military parade.

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