For people looking to travel on the cheap in Russia, lot of opportunities abound as summer rolls in. Thanks to budget airlines like Ryanair and easyJet, it is getting much more cost effective to plan a trip home or jet out of muggy Moscow for the weekend.

This past week marked the beginning of a number of auctions in London featuring imperial and avant-garde art from Russia. Sotheby’s held the biggest Russian sale of art they have ever had while Christie’s set a new price record for an individual lot.

Russia has designed a multiple warhead ballistic missile and tested it successfully. The missile will be used if needed against air defense systems. The announcement comes as the United States continues with plans to move a missile defense shield into the central area of Europe.

The Russian twins, Olesya and Elena Nurgalieva, finished 1st and 2nd in the women’s division of the Comrades Marathon yesterday while Leonid Shvetsov won the men’s while setting a new record of 5 hours 20 minutes and 49 seconds on the course. The marathon began at Pietermaritzburg City Hall and ended at the Sahara Stadium [...]

President Vladimir Putin honored both moral values and military power Tuesday during the Russia Day festivities. Russians as diverse as Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the men that designed nuclear-armed submarines were recognized at the State Prize ceremony in the Kremlin Tuesday.
Russia Day was originally a holiday created to celebrate the country’s emergence from the Soviet Union [...]