Today, moving from the city to the countryside has become the mainstream in Russia, but in 2012 the Bajans were one of the first such families to step into the unknown, rethinking the concept of ...

MOSCOW -Outside Moscow, in a dacha or countryside summer house, Ms Anna Belousova, 30, shows virtual tourists how to make cottage-cheese pancakes from a family recipe. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The arrival to urban centers and the countryside of millions of Muslim labor migrants from Central Asia is at the center of what could emerge as Russia's most radical ethnic makeover in centuries.

Photographer Svetlana Likhanova has been exploring the villages of Russia’s Kuznetsk Basin for the past several years, a theme that has become a quiet obsession.