Creamy, chocolatey logs made from cookies, cocoa, and butter were on the table in almost every Soviet family. Despite their foreign origins, they became one of the most common homemade desserts. And they became a kind of symbol of socialism — both its heyday and its decline.

"Do you remember when we visited Aunt Valya in Kyiv in 1975?” Vladimir Sorokin wrote in one of his stories. “She made a chocolate sausage just for us. I ate it for the first time in my life — you’d already had it before. I loved it! Aunt Valya made it so it looked exactly like a Braunschweiger sausage. The walnuts looke

From the very first day of the invasion of Ukraine, anti-war art has spilled onto the streets and squares of Russian cities. And, despite detentions and fines, for 10 months they have continued to protest against Russian militarism.

The Moscow Times picked seven of the most compelling anti-war artists and talked to some of them about their work and their lives.

Where theres Christmas, theres Christmas Eve. Twelve days "from star to water," that is, from the appearance of the first star on Christmas Eve to baptism on Epiphany. This holiday is a vivid example of how pagan and Christian rituals merged in our history.

Russian holidays have always been an amazing combination of spiritual rejuvenation and the simple pleasures of good food and gathering around the table. Special dishes were always seen by our ancestors as an indispensable part of any celebration. And when we look back into our ancient rituals, we sometimes see how little has changed to