Russian culture

After long eschewing marriage, Pyotr Kolyadin and Tatyana Neustroyeva wed in April in St. Petersburg, Russia. It's "sort of like an anchor that you throw forward and maybe somehow it will pull you out," Pyotr says.

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These Russian couples didn't plan to get married. The Ukraine war changed their minds

4:54am June 08, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

More couples — including those who stayed in Russia and those who fled — are urgently marrying, for reasons both practical and deeply emotional.

Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, ordered the removal of a Soviet monument in April, after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The monument was erected in 1982 as a symbol of unification and friendship between Ukraine and Russia

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Politics & Government

Ukraine agonizes over Russian culture and language in its social fabric

9:04am June 02, 2022

A third of Ukrainians have called Russian their mother tongue. Russian statues and cultural markers abound. Are these influences inherently toxic? The war is prompting emotional conversations.

Elena Nikolaenko re-created Raphael's Sistine Madonna with her husband, mother and three children.

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Health & Safety

Russian Speakers Imitate Art In A Time Of Coronavirus Confinement On Facebook

1:52pm May 18, 2020

by Charles Maynes

An art project to shake the lockdown blues has become an online sensation as pent-up Russian speakers from across the globe reenact classic artwork to pass the time amid the pandemic.