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

Sitting at the China ... doll, it contains a church, a Russian restaurant, and a music hall in an area measuring 3,200 square meters. The matryoshka doll, also known as a Russian nesting doll ...

Representing motherhood and fertility, the nesting dolls were first produced as didactic toys to teach children how to count, as well as traditional Russian ... the group is made first and other ...

“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 ...

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 ...