Photographer William Carrick and his partner J...  ...nd his partner John MacGregor traveled throughout Russia between 1857 and 1878 taking portraits of Russians of all stations and occupations. These pictures f...  .... These pictures form an ethnographic overview of Russia in...

The Soviet Union had a terrifying system for h...  ...e know by one word: Gulag. From 1930 until 1960, Russian authorities ran a tightly-controlled network of f...  ...abor camps, known as Gulags. Gulag was actually a Russian acronym for Chief Administration of Corrective La...  ...memory and in the formation o...

An all-female religious sect has sprung up in Russia with a rather unusual belief that Vladimir Putin...

Frank Jacobs of Strange Maps blog posted this map...  ...ge Maps blog posted this map that accompanied the Russian translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. It ha...

A scientist in Russia , Vladimir Obryvkov of the Voronezh State Universi...

Phil Rosenthal created "Everybody Loves Raymon...  ...here in America, everybody loves Raymond - but in Russia ? Now that's a story that only Phil can tell: P...  ...a bona-fide expert in his craft. And then.... the Russians called. In the hilarious EXPORTING RAYMOND, a gen...  ...at could only exist in real...

Scientists in Russia have developed techniques for successfully farmin...  ...ve this increasingly scarce and beautiful fish... Russia halted commercial harvesting in 2002. Five years...  ...s and trout farms.  The photo comes from English Russia

For the first time in history, beer, currently cla...  ...s set to be reclassified as an alcoholic drink in Russia . The move is a part of the Kremlin's war on alcoh...  ...d bottles to a maximum size of 0.33 litres. Many Russians

Talking about driving your point home! Pictur...  ...rd created by the government of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia , to discourage drunk driving. The text on the ba...  ...The text on the back side, according to English Russia , reads "Your body could have been here." Link...  ...been here." Link via Jalopnik...

What good are spam, you say? How about saving the...  ...he woman, dubbed "The Black Widow," who Russian authorities suspect was part of the same militant...  ...cted of being accomplices escaped from the house. Russian security forces told The Telegraph that phones ar...  ...com/_news/2011/01/28/59420...