Russian culture has long treated suffering as a form of virtue, and this video traces how that idea developed over time. From Orthodox traditions and Soviet messaging to present-day social attitudes, ...

Ahead of New Year’s Eve, the biggest holiday in Russia, Sergei, 30, a Russian IT specialist based in Romania, said he would try to watch “The Irony of Fate,” the 1975 romantic comedy that is a New ...

From borscht to bilingual households, Barbashev shares how he keeps his culture alive while raising a family in the U.S. “The dish is probably the soup. It’s called borscht,” Barbashev said.

An eerie limbo prevails at small art shows, independent theaters and private political clubs, where the war is the elephant ...

Less than 20 miles from the Russian border is the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has faced great trauma in the course of Russia's four-year onslaught. Despite the great personal losses of many of ...