Another Shore - Russia

So, how was Eurovision 2016 for you? A fun-filled evening of cheesy pop (evenings, if you also caught the semi-finals). Here, for one half...

I caught up with the recent edition of BBC's Panorama called " Putin's Secret Riches" (available on i-player until Jan 20...

The good news is that the Moscow Times reports that the suicide rate is the Russian capital is falling.  The bad news is that...

It has been widely reported that the Russian government has decided to ban transgender people from driving ( BBC , Guardian ). They have add...

... well, not quite. The Guardian reports that the tumbling Rouble saw the owners of two English football clubs take big hits. Alisher Us...

It's been in the news that, in honour of the final Hobbit film having its Russian premier, an art group, Svechenie , had wanted to pla...

It's fair to say that Russia has something of an image problem. Despite the opportunity offered by this year's Winter Olympics to wi...

This is Russia's prison for its most dangerous men; 260 inmates convicted of 800 murders collectively. The documentary, shown as a part...

Football-related incidents bring issues of racism in Russia to the attention of more people. But that sadly is not the limit of the problem...

With the end of October fast approaching and the accompanying annual festival, it is only appropriate that Russian politicians come up with ...

If you saw a cat or a dog in the street in the UK, you'd bet that it had a home to go to, even if it didn't have a collar. Not so in...

Lily and I are trying to declutter. We'd been acquiring stuff in the way typical of many new-weds, for whom money isn't free-flowing...

Many Russians have a dacha , a country house. If a Brit mentions going to spend the weekend at the country house, you think of the landed ge...

I went over to Russia for the first time in 2004 to teach English; not just Russia, but to Surgut - a smallish town in the frozen wastes of ...

In Siberia, there is a common belief relating to the effects of living in such a cold, northerly environment on people's blood pressure....

Given as a present to take on my first trip (to inform or to put the fear of god up me?), ten years later I finally finished this impressive...

Ask most people to name things associated with Russia then vodka and/ or alcohol are going to be high up on that list. This isn’t helpe...