Moscow

Boisterous Boris
Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
A Russian pop star fights domestic violence
After 10 years of silence, Valeria speaks out about how she suffered at the hands of her husband.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
London KO's Paris for Olympics! Stunning fourth-round upset sends 2012 Games Thames-side. Dejected Parisians hint at retirement.
Hide those thighs
Moscow officials fight ads for a male strip club that display "massive loins."
Russian dancing
The night was sultry and vodka-filled, but the girl was from another world than my own.
Putin's puppet prostitutes
Russia's president wants to censor a TV show that portrays him as a playboy.
"Buddha's Little Finger" by Victor Pelevin
In a novel by turns shabby, sexy and visionary, the Russian virtuoso captures post-perestroika Moscow in all its weirdness.
Better dead than red, white and blue
By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything.
A Black Sea affair
On a Soviet cruise ship in 1985, we evaded the KGB agent trying to foil our international interlude. But in the end, we lost, and on a sad Moscow night years later, the truth came out.
Buff cut
Hairstylists at a Moscow salon shampoo and trim in nothing but their high heels.
From Russia with love
Former KGB agent teaches vaginal wizardry at Moscow sex academy.
I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice
Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia
I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.
Cold plunges and sport singing: Life in a Russian kindergarten
A wee New Yorker is sent to Rodnik, a temple of rigidity and complex grammar. And he loves it.
Letters to the Editor
Is it inequity that bothers Goozner, or the billionaires? Plus: Susie Bright's "self-serving" open relationship; the elitism of "Sensation" defenses.
Chili con carne, anyone?
Vijai Maheshwari reports on the effect Russia's financial problems are having on the shopping habits of locals and expats in Moscow -- chili con carne, anyone?
The Salon Interview - Ken Kalfus
For 44-year-old Ken Kalfus, who has just published his first book, "Thirst," success was worth waiting for.
Someone to watch over me
For one little boy whose babyhood was almost lost in a crowded Russian orphanage, it's not the educational toys and developmental stimuli that matter most.

Daily Newsletter

Get Salon in your mailbox!