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WOONSOCKET – The Woonsocket Harris Public Library will present the program, Traditional Matryoshka Nested Doll Making, on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 11 a.m. The interactive presentation by Russian artist and lecture, Marina Forbes, will feature the history...

My admission ticket to the Hermitage. Last day in Saint Petersburg, Russia and we’d be spending it on two more excursions, “The Hermitage: A Wealth of Art and History” and “Canal Cruise and Shopping“. What a beautiful city...

One of Marie-Eve Bouchard’s many tiny lockets Marie-Eve Bouchard thrives on tininess. At a small table in the most crowded corner of a café, she revises work by her music students. A musician herself, she has an affinity for pared-down...

When the Soviet Union cracked up, American journalist Anne Williamson was a popular freelancer on all things Russian for the Wall Street Journal and other prestigious outlets. A major New York publisher signed her to a contract for a book on Russia in...

Moscow (AFP) - From cheery peasant girls in Tsarist times to Soviet-era cosmonauts to today's Pussy Riots, the changing face of Russia's matryoshka nesting dolls reflects the country's tumultuous history. For tourists the dolls inside dolls that generally...