If you were to look at Moscow from above, one of the most discernible sights would be the Moscow State Univerisity — an enormous...

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Elena Hlamenko The Soviet Union was known for many things: censorship, tensions with America, the Space Race. But perhaps one of the most...

Anna Belova People often ask me, “Anna, why do you study the Russian language if you are already fluent in it?” Questions like the one...

On Wednesday, September 2, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced with “unequivocal” certainty that President Putin’s critic Alexei...

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When the polls closed in Belarus on August 9th, the Belorussian people did not know what to expect. On the one hand, Alexander Lukashenko...

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