Consider a day trip to the peaceful 19th century artists’ colony and estate at Abramtsevo, located just south of Sergeyev Posad.

This summer, Moscow has been bombarded by some strange weather. The only remedy for such a summer is a pool and a beach party.

Christmas 1989 was one of the holidays I managed to spend at home in Yorkshire.

The political map of the world shifted in 1989 in almost as radical a way as after the end of the Second World War.

In Petrostate, Marshall Goldman tells the story of the oil industry in Russia and how the country became and energy superpower.

A major factor that determined the social and psychological evolution of post-Soviet society was a cognitive vacuum.

For those returning or having just returned from holidays abroad, reports about the smog in which Moscow was shrouded for a couple of weeks may seem exaggerated.

Articles on Ashgabat, the Turkmen capital, usually churn out the well-worn quote “Dubai meets the Soviet Union”.

The heat belted out of the uninsulated engine compartment; the steering wheel had about 20 degrees of free play making straight-line progress more a matter of luck than judgement.