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Dostoyevskaya has just opened as Moscow’s new subway line and the city is on suicide alert.

The wonderful legacy of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. If Fyodor Dostoevsky was alive instead of being pleased that a new subway station in Moscow is named after him he would be naturally gloomy and quite dreary...

Storming for the exits in Russia.

Fire hazards and other perils… What do you make of a scene where pyrotechnics going off in a nightclub lead to a contagious fire and the semblance of a mass panic exodus? Death and destruction – lots of it. From...

Raul Castro’s Cuba More Opressive Than Ever.

Watching the human rights violations mount. Here's a trick question. Because Fidel Castro, Cuba's longest reigning strongman, effectively moved aside for his brother Raul, what do you think has happened regarding human rights violations? If you believe they worsened,...

From Russia with Love

It was during fashion week that SCV caught up with the doyen of ephemeral, lust, gluttony and superlative desire Katya Leonovich. Infusing her sensibilities for the visual and textural, an artist and commonly perceived fashion designer...