McDonald's Russian restaurants have just reopened – but they're not owned by McDonald's anymore. When the chain opened its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, hundreds lined up to try its burgers.

At first the task seemed simple. Go to the store to buy a loaf of bread, butter, eggs, milk, sugar, some meat and a few vegetables. In most places in the world it would have been a simple task, but ...

THE SOVIET Union is moving inexorably into an era of greater political pluralism and probably unavoidable regional fragmentation. Is the United States ready to deal with these profound changes? Pretty ...

MOSCOW — Moscow police bulldozers razed early yesterday morning a protesters’ shantytown across from the Kremlin gates that since the summer had been a squalid symbol of this society’s new freedom and ...

Continuing its campaign of pressure, the Kremlin sent troops on another foray in the Lithuanian capital on Thursday and repeated it would not hold formal talks with separatist leaders there until the ...

EADaily, November 18th, 2025. In 1931, the Progress publishing house was established in the USSR, where professional translators from many countries of the world worked, who were allocated apartments ...

CLOWN DEFECTS. A clown from the Moscow Circus has defected during a tour of the United States and plans to seek political asylum, an attorney said Thursday. Lawyer Michael Ross said Sergei Uhanov, 28, ...

An initiative has been launched to digitize Russia's photographic archive. Russiainphoto.ru has more than 80,000 images ranging from the 1860s up to 1999. RFE/RL's Amos Chapple had a look through the ...