Let's face it: times are tough in Russia. And as an expat or tourist who's gobbled up his fair share of pelmeni and borshch, you may find yourself hankering after something you ...

In downtown Moscow, mom-and-pop eateries haven't fared well against fast food and overpriced restaurant chains.

It's 10 p.m. in a fitness club on a quiet side street near the Kitai-Gorod metro station in central Moscow, and a group of guys are warming up for their training.

Kevin has always wanted to be a basketball player, and he looks the part. The 27-year-old is broadly built, tall and athletic with long arms. He wears a 76ers cap and talks ...

The way drugs are dealt in Moscow today makes Bibirevo and other densely populated regions particularly susceptible to low-level trafficking.

A recent article revealed that one in seven Russian undergraduates admits to cheating on exams. Any expat in Moscow teaching English will confirm that.

The 29 year-old-Londoner had come to Moscow to teach, looking for a fresh start in life and playing poker online for enough to start his own English-language school.

For a handful of Syrian refugees living in the north of Moscow, the conditions of asylum in Russia are a bit out of the ordinary. They don't do anything stereotypical refugees do. ...