On a mission to improve their world image, the war-torn Russian Republic of Chechnya has enlisted an unlikely ally -- Canadian model Chrystal Callahan. The model currently hosts her own weekly Sunday evening television show in Chechnya, broadcast in English with Russian subtitles. Highlights of the Week with...

By Serge Antonov

Amid the financial crisis sweeping through Russia, the oligarchs, the country's financial and industrial elite, are faced with a dilemma they did not anticipate a mere year ago: how not to go broke? As their wealth plummeted and the cost of borrowing skyrocketed, they are struggling to...

Irina Pavlova

What do the oligarch owner of the Evening Standard, possible murderer of renegade spy Alexander Litvinenko and a former deputy prime minister of Russia have in common? All three are entering the race to become mayor of a Black sea resort town with total population of 402,000. This...

By Katya Tylevich

Aw. If it isn't little Privatizatsia ("Privatization") and darling Viagra, two Russian newborns who stand almost no chance of leading happy childhoods thanks to the names bestowed upon them by their loving parents. In Soviet times, it was not unusual to have a friend named Stalina or...