KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) ''What's the score?'' asks Svetlana Fedorenko as she enters a bathhouse in The Russian Caucuses mountains with her husband and friends: the U.S.-Russia hockey game is ...

The Russian communal bathhouse, or banya, where people are steamed at extreme heat, beat each other with birch branches, and then jump into cold water or snow, has struck many observers as a foretaste ...

NEW YORK -- What does it say about a culture when one of its most honored rituals involves thrashing the body? Can we read it as a symbol of harsh Russian life, or does it speak more to a mentality -- ...

When 35-year-old Marina Pomaro purchased The Russian Banya in Carrollton, she and her husband were looking to save a bit of the Russian culture that stands in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “Me and my ...

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) ''What's the score?'' asks Svetlana Fedorenko as she enters a bathhouse in the Caucasus Mountains with her husband and friends: The U.S.-Russia hockey game was on, and ...

In this dense monograph, scholar Pollock (Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars) digs in to the complexities of the Russian bathhouse, offering a survey of the sacred and profane rituals associated with ...

MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he enjoyed going to banya, which is to some extent a Russian equivalent of a Finnish sauna, but he is not inviting there his ...

Russian intelligence services have spied on and filmed Jehovah's Witnesses in a bathhouse, in the latest example of persecution against the outlawed Christian group. The snooping, carried out by ...

The all-day menu has everything from Eastern European and Russian dishes to chicken wings. There are potato-stuffed pierogi, plus samsa, a lamb and onion-stuffed pastry. At Bear and Birch in Freehold ...

A Russian spa in San Francisco has declared this weekend the “Weekend of Ukraine,” offering anyone with a Ukrainian passport free spa passes. Archimedes Banya, a Russian banya, or bathhouse, with ...

reporting from MOSCOW — After a stressful week, a steaming hot bath sounded like a nice diversion. I was in Moscow for a friend’s wedding, and things had not been going smoothly. It was my first time ...

Archimedes, the original math geek, discovered the principle of hydrostatics while stepping into his bath. "Eureka!" he exclaimed as water sloshed over the side. His breakthrough moment was the ...