Russophiles Unite!

"This Ted-Ed video sets itself the ludicrously ambitious target of trying to explain the origins of Russia in less than six minutes."

"'Tsar' has its fair share of strong female characters so far, but Marfa/Catherine surpasses them all"

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness bestowed upon them by those at a safe enough distance not to kno

The second episode of BBC Radio Four’s drama series, Tsar, or ‘Game of Russian Throne’, as I can no longer resist the temptation to call...

Totally unexpectedly, today I’ve found myself with the opportunity to write about something Russia-related almost as soon as it has...

"Listening nearly 30 years on with a reasonable idea of how things turned out, when I revisit the series I encounter something akin to

“Thank you, Stalin, for my happy childhood!” It’s a jarring utterance to say the least, and the speaker is not unaware of that fact....

Russian-born journalist and commentator Masha Gessen gives some authority to a discussion prompted by the publication of two new translation

It's been a while since my last post, but then a lot has happened in the last few weeks. As you may already be aware, I'm British. Just...

Under normal circumstances, I really couldn’t care less about football. For the sake of clarity, I’m talking about the type of football...