High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russian Life, previously known as The USSR and Soviet Life, is a 64-page color bimonthly magazine of Russian culture. It celebrated its 50th birthday in October 2006. The magazine is written and edited by American and Russian staffers and freelancers. While its distant heritage is as a propaganda tool of the Soviet and Russian government, since 1995 it has been privately owned and published by a US company, Russian Information Services.