This photograph, taken in America in 1930, shows famous friends belting out a Russian song as loudly as they can - and the occasion would inspire a much-loved film. Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship ...

Climb Levitan’s Hill Visit one of the art galleries and maybe even buy a picture by a local artist Try the beer and traditional delicacies at the Plyos beer house inside an 18th-century building Walk ...

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is travelling in a Volga car along the Volga river to take a snapshot of life in Vladimir Putin's Russia, as the presidential election looms. This is his first piece, ...

Sleek, low-slung and preferably black, it was once an object of desire for every Soviet bureaucrat. Now, more than half a century after it was first produced, Russia is stopping production of the ...

“We’re not Russians! Never let anyone label us that way. Just because a chicken lays an egg in an oven, that doesn’t make the egg a biscuit.” I remember hearing those words as a child. My mother went ...

The news that all fans of Russian cars were dreading has been confirmed. Oleg Deripaska, the Russian tycoon who controls the Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ), has declared that production of the ...