Mariya and Aleksandr Dmitriev share a one-bedroom apartment with one of the biggest names in soccer – Messi. No not the star himself, but his namesake – a 90lb puma. The Russian couple first spotted Messi at the Saransk Zoo in Penza when he was just eight-months-old and decided that they had to

Georgia had been on my travel bucket list for a couple of years, waiting for a perfect opportunity of me sitting down to do the proper planning. Mind you, it took 3 months before I was able to embark on my quest. When I started preparing for the journey, I had already been photographing abandoned

You may have seen a few of the “It’s coming home” memes around lately, a reference to a world cup song made for England in the 1990’s about football ‘coming home’ and England finally winning a major tournament. Excitement reached fever pitch as, quite unexpectedly, a quite unfancied England team

In Russia, homosexuality is technically decriminalized but people who form “non-traditional” relationships have it pretty hard there. For example, in 2013 the country passed a law banning the spreading of “gay propaganda” among minors, which the European Court of Human Rights ruled was

It’s not really unusual to spot a dirty car while strolling around the city. Some of us even use it as a canvas to draw some silly pictures and “teach” their lazy owners a lesson. And while this is something you wouldn’t normally want to find all over your vehicle in the morning, this Russian