Long reads Stuff of dreams High oil prices have given Russia renewed power, frightening the west but bringing hope to ordinary By Helen Womack
A brave new world of Pyrex dishes Russia today is like Britain in the Fifties and Sixties: agog at new washing machines, throwing out By Helen Womack
Russia 1 – Too big? Too cold? Or just ungovernable? Russians go to the polls in a few days. Moscow's super-rich may give the brutal new consumer culture By Helen Womack