BOB GARFIELD: Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that will require popular Russian bloggers to register themselves with the government. Stripped of their anonymity, ...

Can you think of a word in English that can’t fully be translated into another language? We know that Inuit people have several different words for “snow” because it is prevalent and each word means a ...

Be careful: not all Russian words that sound familiar mean what you would expect them to. The classic movie Brilliantovaya Ruka is not (as this student once thought) a movie about a man with a ...

Motherland or fatherland? How would Russians attribute their native country? Well, English language would be envious of the many expressions that we use in a patriotic mood. The Russian national ...

A good Russian accent, such as the one Viggo Mortensen uses as Nikolai Luzhov in 2007’s “Eastern Promises,” brings an air of authenticity and drama to a performance. A bad one, however, like Arnold ...

Neil Bermel receives funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Vladimir Putin has written about the “historical unity” of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, in part through their ...