McDonald's Russian restaurants have just reopened – but they're not owned by McDonald's anymore. When the chain opened its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, hundreds lined up to try its burgers.

The elderly man, his brown homburg pulled low across his brow against the chilly air promising winter, approached sheepishly with a small plastic box. ”Would you be interested in purchasing these, by ...

Standing in line is a reality of Soviet life. People stand in line to buy food, to select clothes and then again to pay for them. A line waits to view Lenin`s body in Red Square while, across from ...

Imagine this situation: Secretary of State James Baker goes to Moscow, confers with Fidel Castro, restores full diplomatic relations with Cuba, works out an agreement on Angola, removes some of the ...

American fast-food icon McDonald's on Friday marked 30 years since it first opened its doors in Moscow, an occasion with deep resonance here since the transition from the communist Soviet Union. Yet, ...

An initiative has been launched to digitize Russia's photographic archive. Russiainphoto.ru has more than 80,000 images ranging from the 1860s up to 1999. RFE/RL's Amos Chapple had a look through the ...