The Reading Junkie

Yesterday Maria and I visited the cosmonautics museum in Moscow. There's a lot to see and I took some photos to share with you. ...

Yesterday I came across an interesting article about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, the son of a milk maid and a carpenter (like a certain other famou...

Ukrainians claim to have captured two Chinese volunteers. Whether or not this story is true, it is meant to prove a Chinese-Russian partnership. But i...

As I reported after she was arrested in Russia a little over a year ago, Karelina was accused of donating money to Ukrainian causes. But not just an...

I see a lot of people, usually coastal liberals and Europeans, claiming that Trump is some sort of menace that’s destroyed the good thing that i...

There is this idea that Russians are more repressed than Americans and western people, but nothing could be further fom the truth. Russians (both Sovi...

Molchanov resided in Russia, where he frequently criticized the Zelensky regime. He had left to attend what he believed was an award ceremony held by ...

"How similar are Russian and Ukrainian?" is a frequently asked question. As someone who previously knew neither language and am now studying Russian a...

Exactly 26 years ago, NATO war planes commenced 78 days of terror against Yugoslavia, deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and pop...

On March 22, 82 years ago to the day, the German SS and Ukrainian nationalists destroyed the Belarussian village of Khatyn along with all of its inh...

Recently I re-watched the Kenneth Branagh film adaption of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. This was the first time I had seen the story as...

Because I’m less than satisfied with existing English “pro-Russia” content and am feeling a little more confident in my Russian language skills ...