Russia is giving Moscow a tourist makeover. At the heart of this initiative is more than profit, but rather a geopolitical ...

Moscow, Russia, is changing fast. Once-empty shops have become expensive restaurants, designer boutiques and 24-hour convenience stores. Moscow's nightlife, which used to be restricted to cheesy ...

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Moscow is shaped like a large wheel, with highways, or "ring roads," circling the city and a series of smaller streets stretching outward from the city center like spokes. Moscow is further divided by ...

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I’ve dreamed of visiting many exotic and distant places and discovering adventures around the globe. I’ve danced the habanera in Havana; observed the ancient ritual of “tea pickers” in Sri Lanka; have ...

The colorful onion domes of St. Basil%27s Cathedral dominate Red Square. Parts of the subway were designed as a museum to show art Don%27t miss the museum devoted to Russia%27s numerous ...

Travel Weekly's Michelle Baran was on a Russian river cruise on the Viking Pakhomov, a 210-passenger ship that was just renovated. Her fourth and final dispatch follows. Click to read Michelle's first ...

The cat’s out of the bag! Matt’s arrived in Moscow in a veil of secrecy worthy of the KGB to give you a glimpse of Russia’s great capital city. Since shaking off its Communist past 13 years ago, ...

I often wonder. When sharing travel stories, we typically differentiate between the places we’ve “been” and those places where we’ve laid over. And yet layovers — the intermittent geography between ...