Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers as “Gorky Park,” has died at age 82.

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He was an intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

Peter and Paul Fortress is ranked #4 out of 18 things to do in St. Petersburg. See pictures and our review of Peter and Paul Fortress.

Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace is ranked #1 out of 18 things to do in St. Petersburg. See pictures and our review of Hermitage Museum and the Winter Palace.

It’s a key refuge for Moscow’s wealthy, including the record producer Iosif Prigozhin. He insists he still loves President ...

This is a bombshell, putting to the lie Russian propaganda’s longstanding claim that some spiritual entity called Russia has ...

When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

This remarkable documentary was filmed at a high school in Karabash, a heavily polluted town in central southern Russia.

Substack: <a href=" Substack Notes: <a href=" Podcast: <a href=" or @GeographyPod Linktree for socials: <a href=" Kaliningrad is Russia's only official warm water port and exists entirely surrounded ...

Today is the great feast of the Church of Rome, born from the witness of the apostles Peter and Paul and made fruitful by their blood and that of many other martyrs.’ ...

Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. But the legend, which includes ...