Many people do not know that the American artist James Abbot McNeill Whistler spent part of his early life in Russia. His father played a role in the design of the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad, so at the age of 9, Whistler was sent to study at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts. You can [...]

The BBC has reported that a former business associate of the poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko claims that he was murdered because he had put together an eight-page document on a powerful Russian business man. According to Yuri Shvets, an ex-spy currently based in the United States, Litvinenko was working for Western based companies, providing [...]

The holiday season is upon us and with that comes a slew of performances in the arts. Even after the season winds down, cultural nightlife in Moscow will continue after the new year begins, providing plenty of social opportunities for meeting pretty Russian women or taking single women on dates. One of the first festivals [...]

Two times a week single Russian women in Moscow are heading over to the Dubrovka theater to take classes in how to land a husband. Four years ago in the very same theater, Chechen radicals took an audience hostage and 129 people were killed during the rescue attempt. Now days the backstage area of the [...]

Kazan State University, founded in 1804, recently celebrated its 202nd birthday. Many Kazan women and men study at the state-assisted university along with people from other areas of the country. The school offers studies in 32 specialties and is one of the largest and oldest institutions of higher education in Russia. It is considered to [...]