Organized crime had been rampant in the dying Soviet Union for years, fueled by economic shortages and corruption. Around the…
In June 21, 1993 issue of Time, the magazine published a cover story on the rise of prostitution around the…
Ok. You know what I am going to rant about here. This: Russia's grand vanity oligarchic Olympics, which costs $50+ billion,…
Clever digital manipulation is not necessary -- strategic release of photos often sufficed -- to create myths. Boris Yeltsin perfectly encapsulated…
The 20th Century opened with Russia slowly teetering towards disenchantment and chaos. Emancipation of serfs in 1861 left many landowners at a…
On June 10th 1996, Alexander Zemlianichenko captured in a photo that would eventually win a Pulitzer and a Word Press…
To the Russians, Vladimir Ulyanov was already a living symbol in 1917. Ulyanov – now better known by his revolutionary…
Along with Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank, it was one of the iconic images of the dying Soviet Union's…
For a few unsettling months in 1969, tensions between two nuclear powers reached fever-pinch. On March 2nd, Soviet and Chinese…
In October 1941, at Minsk, Belorussia (then occupied by the Nazis), a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan Masha Bruskina was arrested. Her crime?…