By SABRINA TAVERNISE AUG. 8, 2015 Dancing on a recent summer’s day in Gorky Park, Moscow. Credit Valeri Nistratov for The New York Times MOSCOW — Russia’s capital city has worn many outfits since the fall of the Soviet Union. There was the tattered but...

More than 2.5 million people have left Russia during the past decade, sparking fears of a new brain-drain. A third of Russia's young professionals are thinking of leaving the country, according to the Russian market research company ROMIR. Many of them...

Background: As part of the Education and Social Justice Project, in June 2012 undergraduate student Masha Goncharova interviewed Michel Baibabaeff, a teacher of Russian literature at Lycée Henri IV. In this interview he discusses his experience in Russian...