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Did you know there is a Russian language ‘hotline’?
How millions of Soviet viewers were ‘healed’ in front of their TV screens
How the ‘Study in Russia’ portal helps prospective students, current students & their parents
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How a Soviet surgeon saved a patient using blood from… a dead body!
This designer furnished living rooms across the USSR
Why did Ivan the Terrible’s sons become saints?
How Pushkin confessed to atheism & was punished
5 Russian writers who benefited from the revolution
Should the Orthodox Church be wealthy or poor?
Why did Leo Tolstoy saw off the legs of his chairs?
How (STRANGELY) did Russian writers work?
Why did people in old Russia put FROGS in milk!?
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Why did Nicholas II's wife try to save money on everything?
What is going on in the painting ‘To War’ by Savitsky?
How a Russian surgeon turned frozen bodies into the first 3D human atlas
Who are the ‘Two from the Chest’?
15 quotes from Sergei Dovlatov's books that every Russian knows
8 Odysseuses of Russian Literature (PICS)
5 fears Russian tsars had
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What's going on in this painting by Nikolai Koshelev?
Why are there graves… in Moscow parks?
Who did the ‘kisser’ kiss?
Why did Patriarch Nikon gouge out the eyes of icons?
How a Russian artist became a classic writer in the U.S.
How Joseph Stalin would spend his summer vacations (PHOTOS)
The first Russian travelogue: Afanasy Nikitin's ‘A Journey Beyond the Three Seas’
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