One of the first things you want to be curious about an unknown country is its weather. Especially, it is applicable to Russia because there are so many stereotypes around that Russia is a synonymous of cold. This is not true -- the country is large, there are different climates, meteorological conditions, etc. Keeping thing in mind, you are welcome to access weather information from the Russian Space Research Institute.

In addition to this, I find it a bit fascinating, below, you can see how the Sun illuminates the country.

The groups you are seeing here could not be very conventional but it will help you to figure thing out, anyway.

• Soups (Russian borshch is there as well)
• Meat (different ways to make it)
• Different ways to make meet with different things
• Salads
• Souses of different kinds
• Kashas (Orthodox kutia is there as well)
• Milk based products
• Different side-dishes (zakuska)
• Vegitable stuff
• Fish
• Cakes, pies, etc.
• Russian pancakes
• What you can do with fruits
• Drinks (all kinds)
• Preserved products (jams, varenie, etc.)
• Sweets
• Misc
• Articles that contain recipes of different dishes
• Old style Russian measures

• Former review of the Russian history for CIA spies.
• Some book published during Nicholas II times (before 1917). I do not know who the author is -- it just appeared from nowhere.
• A review about the history of parlamentarism in Russia
• A little review of the military history (airplanes) in Soviet era.
• The book "The Origins of Ukraininan Separatism" by N.I. Ulyanov