Smithsonian Magazine

Fabergé Egg Gifted by Russia’s Last Czar Breaks World Record, Selling for $30.2 Million at Auction

The Winter Egg’s record stood until 2007, when the Rothschild Egg, a dazzling 1902 specimen featuring a clock and an ...

IOC says two figure skaters from Russia can compete at Milano Cortina

IOC said three figure skaters, two from Russia and one from Belarus, have been cleared to compete at Milano Cortina Olympics ...
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Russia’s coldest city gets two months worth of snow in just 5 days and their photos look surreal (30 pics)

From digging up their cars to having the road signs swept up by snow, the locals in Russia's northernmost city exhibit ...

Ukrainian sports minister rejects idea of Russian athletes returning for Winter Olympics

Ukrainian Youth and Sports Minister Matviy Bidnyi told CNN Sports that it’s “too early” to speak about Russian and Belarusian ...
Observer

A $30.2 Million Fabergé Egg Commissioned by the Last Czar of Russia Sets a New Auction Record

On December 2, Christie’s set a new world auction record for Fabergé—the third in its history—after hammering the Winter Egg, ...
Opinion

Russia’s propaganda from the 1939 Winter War is now strangely familiar

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand ...

‘Greatest of them all’: Fabergé’s Winter Egg is poised to smash auction records

Engraved in quartz and embellished with diamonds, the 112-year-old curio commissioned by Russian tsar Nicholas II could set a new auction record for Fabergé eggs when it goes on sale in December.
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Macron proposes winter moratorium on Russian strikes against Ukraine's energy grid

French President Emmanuel Macron proposed to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, that China pressure Russia to accept a moratorium on ...