Another Shore - Russia

The 9th May is when Russia celebrates VE Day. For them, though, this is the end of what is seen as the "Great Patriotic War" (1941...

Russia Today summarises findings of a survey by the Levada Centre which says that the percentage of Russians wanting to emigrate is at a hi...

As widely reported , a fire in a shopping centre in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian has killed 14 people, with more bodies likely to be found. ...

My wife's in Moscow for a week - gone to see family and her favourite Russian group, Agata Kristi, who've reformed for a couple of c...

With not being certain about whether Lily and I will stay in the UK long-term.. or even short-term, it got me thinking about whether I'd...

Nowhere's perfect, but the UK has come a long way in terms of increasing access for disabled people, with facilities to work around impa...

KVN, pronounced ka-veh-en , is a national institution. The Club of the Joyful and Inventive is like the Cambridge Footlights kind of sketch...

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...

Of this legendary Soviet rock group, I once told a friend that I'd translated a couple of songs. He answered, "You cannot understan...

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 ...

While waiting for the kettle to boil, I noticed the Russian bicarbonate of soda on our shelf and started reading the box, as you do, Russ...

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 my early days in Russia, a friend, Vadim, called me to invite me over. Soon outside his flat. I rang the bell and the door opened. I...

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...