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Russians

Those Russians: Evgeny Maruskin

Profiles of the real Russian people so few in the west ever come to know. What a tragedy it is,…

Tokyo Woos Russian Travelers to Japan

This week Moscow hotel "Radisson Slavyanskaya" held an event for the travel agencies and the media, and organized a new…

Faces of Russia: Mila Arutyunyan on Immortality

Anna Novikova with a story about the immortality of the human spirit via Mila Arutyunyan, an Armenian-born Russian shopkeeper.

Yaroslavl’s Sergei Pimenov: Defying the Physics of Life

Yaroslav's Sergei Pimanov was a physics professor once, but the fates and a bad system abandoned him to a different…

Among the People of Russia: Vitaly Vakhrushev

We met the man in the Summer of 2016. We noticed him every time we passed the city center on…

A Window Into the Russian Soul: An Epiphany 2017

"Where are we going to?" I asked my brother this morning, as he was driving in an unknown direction with…

Winter in Russia: What the Simple Folk Do

For most people who live very far west of the Dnieper River, Russians are an enigma. (more…)

Russians Spend More & Travel Often – Visa

According to the most recent figures from a global study bv Visa, Russians spend on average $2,730 dollars on foreign…