Stories
Long reads and featured stories about Russia — culture, mindset, media, everyday life. Pick a topic, or read down the list.
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Russia and Asia: How Not to Sleep Through the Biggest Shift
From 100,000 student exchanges with China to fully funded youth summits — the Russia-Asia track explained
Article · 4 min read
Russia in BRICS: How to Plug into the Club of the Future
BRICS is no longer just geopolitics. Youth camps, mentoring, research networks — and how you can personally join
Article · 4 min read
The Propaganda Trap: When Both Sides Lie to You
Russia VS West: Breaking free from the echo chambers
Article · 2 min read
How French hacked the Russian language
And why it surprises everyone
1 min read
Russian nobility spoke French better than Russian
True or false?
1 min read
These Westerners moving to Russia
For genuinely weird reasons
1 min read
How Russians actually see Westerners IRL
Spoiler: it's not what you think
1 min read
My Moscow: what nobody actually tells you
The unfiltered truth
1 min read
When coverage of Russia merges state and people
A look at how the shortcut works, and what it leaves out
1 min read
Sanctions, and the turn toward China
Two things that happened in the same decade
1 min read
Western politics seen by a non-Westerner
External perspective
1 min read