We arrive in Manzhouli a day before Xi Jinping is to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow. It’s a ghost town, where bored attendants ...

“In Russia, think about the cold white winter nights, minus 40 degrees outside. You’re somewhere in the middle of Siberia. It’s all covered with snow,” explains Marina Forbes. With the ...

Russian nesting dolls are dolls, typically made out of wood and in decreasing size so they can nest inside one another. Explore a little more about Russian culture by making Matryoshka dolls or ...

But the dolls that tourists can buy in the markets or at souvenir stands are generally cheap imitations of the real matryoshka, which are made from ... see how a real Russian nesting doll is ...

Danchenko was born one month after President Trump, to a Russian ... all made, like her, in Russia and Ukraine. Visitors to her shop are kindly requested not to open any of the nesting dolls ...

The shopfronts are decked out in white, blue and red, with Chinese and Russian flags hanging side by side from the ceiling. Waist-high Russian dolls ... China, pop-up stores specializing in ...