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Swiss man Benjamin Forster settled in Russia 14 years ago. Before that, he had been to Russia occasionally, but, each time he ...

Many of them were severely destroyed after the Nazi occupation. This is what they look like now. Nikolay Viktorovich (CC ...

Sigma boy, every girl wants to dance with you,” is a line from a song recorded by 11-year-old Svetlana Chertischeva (aka ...

This satellite city of Moscow was once a major center of the textile industry. Nowadays, it is a science city with high ...

Journalist Svetlana Lomakina has been interviewing expats from different countries living all over Russia for several years ...

Turn on this popular Soviet song and you’ll immediately feel the cozy winter vibe!

The collection of the Historical Museum contains an unusual portrait of Yemelyan Pugachev, in which the leader of the ...

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