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In 1971, the Strugatsky brothers: Arkady and Boris released the milestone novella: Roadside Picnic into a Soviet system unready to receive it....

You may not have heard much about “celebrations” set to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution (the 1917 October Revolution, that is), and...

Russia, or rather its incumbent government is facing something of a dilemma in 2017: how to mark the centenary of the 1917 revolution. There is a...

This isn’t about the football itself, I know next to nothing about it, rather some of the circumstances surrounding next year’s main...

I’m fascinated by the differences in the cultures that I have met, both at home and abroad. That’s in comparison to my own culture of cours...

It’s difficult to write this and hard to know the correct approach, but such problems are irrelevant compared to those experienced by individuals...

Last time, we followed a couple along the road from Ulan Ude, to a Buddhist temple – set in the Mongolian/Siberian borderlands. But...

Somewhere behind them Ulan Ude reclined in its ex-Soviet decay, as N&A headed out 30 – perhaps even 40Km, into vacant Steppe –...

Everything changes, nothing changes. 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, born out of socio-political unrest and...

Following the defeat of the last Mongol Khan, Tsarist expansion into Siberia and the East took the predictably ghastly form of conquest and...