Does Creativity Breed Inequality in Cities?
Richard Florida thinks so. In his new book, the urban theorist says sometimes the most innovative cities also have the worst social and economic disparity
Russian Diplomacy Is Equal Parts Blame and Aggression (Op-ed)
Russia is becoming increasingly isolated — not only politically and economically, but culturally and morally too.
The World’s Punniest Humans Are Heading to Texas
The 40th Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships comes to Austin in May
Cheat Sheet for Говорить
The other day I tried to trot out an expression using the words говорить (to speak), так (so) and не (not), and got completely balled up. Now to make sure you don’t make the same mistakes, here’s my говорить cheat sheet.
Russia’s Imaginary Stalin
In Russia, political struggle is waged using historical names as flags. For lack of real political representation we sometimes feel “represented” by people who have long been dead.
Russian Social Network Vkontakte Announces Revenue Rise of 46%
Russian social network Vkontakte netted more than half $500,000 every day during the first quarter of 2017, new data has revealed.
Polls shows number of happy Russians at record-breaking historic high
32% of the respondents feel happy due to family and another 19% due to children in their life The number of Russians who consider themselves happy has set a historical record high, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion said in a statement on Wednesday. “The level of Russians’ happiness, according to subjective…
Coffin with presumed remains of 19th century Russian general dug up in Turkey
A skeleton of a man with a thick beard and moustache dressed in a late 19th century military uniform with epaulettes was found in the coffin Construction workers in Turkey’s northeast province of Ardahan discovered a coffin with remains which could belong to a Russian general who lived there 140 years ago, the Dogan News…
Russia’s upper house passes law banning bizarre baby names
The law will ban figures, abbreviations, numerals, obscene words and titles or positions as baby names Russia’s Federation Council upper house of parliament passed on Wednesday the bill, which bans parents from officially giving their babies names that are foul words, numbers, titles or abbreviations. The law will ban figures, abbreviations, numerals, symbols and characters,…