Destinations

Stalin's Nose (An extract) | Rory MacLean | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

They embalmed Lenin the day after he died, Styopa told us, "with disinfecting liquid - a mixture of formalin and medical spirit - via the aeorta. His brain was removed and preserved in the Lenin Museum

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Moscow - Starry-eyed capital of a shattered empire | Steve Knipp | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

Perceptive travellers have long known that the most famous places are often actually the least known. So it is with Moscow, the sprawling hub of the once great Soviet empire

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Salmon & Kola | Rose Baring | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

The arrival of foreigners in this introverted spot, a forbidden destination for seventy years, had its surreal moments. We flew first to a tented camp, 130kms from the nearest village

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Moscow: The Ugly Duckling Comes of Age | Rose Baring | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

On the table, gazpacho and a glass of Spanish white. Shading me from the incessant sunshine, the portico of a city-centre hotel. Ahead an underground shopping centre decorated at street level

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Back to a Chekhovian Future | Rose Baring | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

Time travel. I've done it. You just leave Moscow, the bustling capital of a former super-power, and head out into the countryside

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Near-death experience | Rory MacLean | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

In 1989 I began to write a sensible book on eastern Europe. Then a revolution tore down the Berlin Wall. Fifty years of totalitarianism - first under fascism and then communism - ended almost overnight

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Russia: What to Know Before You Go | Graeme Harwood | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

Russia may be the largest country in the world but for 80% of her incoming tourism she’s just a tale of two cities: St.Petersburg and Moscow

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Eating Out in Moscow and St Petersburg | Graeme Harwood | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

Despite whatever might still be going on in the provinces, today’s Moscow & St.Petersburg in surprising depth of choice can offer you... well, the lot really

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The Full Moskovy | Dominic Hamilton | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

Although it can sometimes feel as if everything the communists held sacred has been sacked or overturned by Moscow's "Generation P" (P for Pepsi, as coined by the Russian writer Victor Pelevin), not everything has gone

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Trans Siberian Excess – A Survival Guide | Chris Moss | Russian Federation, Central Russia, Moscow

Some provodnitsas are polite, but some are as cold as Siberian permafrost. If you don't speak Russian, you can't talk to them anyway

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