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This article originally appeared at Russia & India Report

William Clement Smith builder of timber frames and wooden churches are his passion. When he saw a photograph of the wooden churches of Kizhi Island in Mortise & Tenon Magazine, he saved up his money and headed to Karelia with his family to celebrate his 60th birthday and see the spectacular ensemble with his own eyes.

Editor's note: This is a very well researched and thorough scholarly article explaining the phenomenon of neo-paganism in Russia.

A new museum has opened in St Petersburg that lets visitors feel the full experience of the Patriotic War.

The Republic of Karelia has become one of the popular travel destinations in all of Russia. When one cast eyes upon its beauty, it becomes apparent why.  

A Russian warship carrying a "hallucination" weapon that "makes enemies vomit" successfully navigated the English channel over the weekend after conducting "air defense and counter-sabotage exercises" near Scotland's only air force base, according to the UK's Sunday Times. 

China is well known for denying visas to overly critical and/or hostile journalists. Write too many bad and unfair things about it and you quietly get the boot, while China maintains plausible deniability. “Oops, your visa application seems to have gotten lost yet again, sorry.”

On February 19, 2019, the leftist website Quartz featured a blog entry alerting its readers that Amazon was selling books too controversial for zealots of political correctness to tolerate. The article was adorned with a burning swastika to give the reader the impression that the primary target of this call for censorship were some truly evil people.

If you see a beautiful woman, how can you tell if she is Russian?

Well, one of the ways is to look at her hair. If she’s wearing a braid, she probably is.

The Russian braid is not just a hairstyle; it is a national tradition which is full of meaning and has a long history in Russia.

The following speech was delivered by John Pilger at a rally in Sydney for Julian Assange, organised by the Socialist Equality Party on March 4, 2019.

As Venezuela’s nationwide crippling power outage goes into days, rather than hours, the suspicion grows that the South American country has been hit with a mass attack by the United States.

Tretyakov, the greatest Russian art collector of all time, had one criterion for art. He wrote:

In a surprising and provocative ultimatum, Syria has notified Israel through United Nations diplomatic channels that it is prepared to go to war if Israel does not leave the Golan Heights. 

The view that monarchy is the best form of government is very popular in Russia, partly because it is part and parcel of Orthodox Christianity, and because many influential priests in Russia teach this, and because many Christians in Russia believe this. Simplified to its basic idea: God gave man monarchy. Democracy destroyed monarch, and God in the process. This article is an excellent statement of the Christian case for monarchy.

This is very well made.

A monastery near the Donetsk airport was strategically important to hold for the fighter, so a bitter shooting battle erupted over it, taking many lives on both sides. The monastery was badly damaged in the process.

Bentley is an American socialist volunteering in the Donbas as a fighter. He has a good YouTube channel and website. He writes very well.

About the author: For lovers of Russian culture, folklore, and history, Kotar’s work is a treasure. The grandson of White Russian immigrants, the 34-year-old is an author of epic fantasy novels inspired by Russian fairy tales. You can see his four books here on Amazon.