In terms of art forgeries, 2024 belonged to the Russian avant-garde market, the increasingly questioned umbrella term for modernist art from post-Soviet and Eastern European countries. Take a break ...

The soldier Lyudmila Pavlichenko has a story surely befitting of history books—literally. She was at university when she was forced to drop out because of the impending war, going on to defy ...

Another shows him flaunting his relationship with a young woman - presumably meant to be current rumoured girlfiend Alina Kabaeva - and coldly telling his crestfallen - now ex-wife - Lyudmila ...

Imagine growing up in isolation in a mansion near Lake Valdai, north-west of Moscow. Your only visitors are your private tutors for music, swimming and gymnastics, and you never interact with other ...