A tornado caused a scare outside Moscow when it passed over the decommissioned site of the world's first civilian nuclear power plant.

At least 9,000 people were evacuated from Moscow buildings on Friday as the capital experienced its first tremors from an earthquake since 1977.

Sochi Olympics organizers said 2,500 doping tests will be conducted at the Winter Games next February, surpassing the total at the Vancouver Games four years ...

Norway has reiterated its concern about an investigation into the 2009 prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky but said it has no plans to impose ...

A prominent figure in the Chechen diaspora in Turkey was shot at his Ankara office in an attack that supporters blamed on Chechen leader Ramzan ...

This Volga River town Yurevets boasts interesting architecture at the Andrei Tarkovsky museum

The Federation Council considers the Amnesty International report on Russia to be biased and politically motivated

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes the fears of bad content blocking are not enough grounds to stop the fight ...

U.S. President Barack Obama could visit Moscow or St. Petersburg ahead of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russian ...

The Arctic is becoming “hotter”: the main reason is the rapid technological progress. Asia is coming to save the ...

   

Two high-ranking Georgian priests have been charged in connection with the May 17 attack by conservative activists on a gay rights rally in downtown Tbilisi, ...

   

Luxoft Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of Moscow-based information technology services provider, IBS Group Holding Limited, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the ...

   

People's attitudes to Russia's global role continue to deteriorate, particularly in the U.S., according to a poll conducted in 25 countries by the BBC.

Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eider has recommended that his country's lawmakers bring the issue of Magnitsky sanctions against Russia before the UN Security Council.

Gazprom spent more than $1 billion on celebrations to mark the company's 20th anniversary this year, Interfax reported Thursday. In February, the Kremlin hosted a gala ...

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Dmitry Konradt, one of the ...

The Russian defense industry has developed a new system to neutralize the U.S. global missile defense system. The statement has puzzled Western intelligence agencies. High-ranking ...

The behavior of Russians abroad has long been a topic of dirty jokes. A collective image of a Russian tourist is a cad, who likes ...

Russian businessman Vasily Klyukin paid $1.5 million for a chance to fly into space with famous Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio

In the Rostov region, on the territory of the former village of Privolnoe, "black archaeologists" discovered skeletal remains of Nazi soldiers during unauthorized excavation works

On Friday, May 24, a strong earthquake occurred in the Far East of Russia. According to preliminary data, the magnitude of the quake was about ...

The 5+2 group tasked with negotiating a settlement to Moldova’s breakaway Transdniester region is expected to conclude a second day of talks Friday (May 24) ...

The appearance of Aleksei Kudrin and Vladislav Surkov in the news this week is the latest sign that the battle in the Russian elite is ...

A photo posted on May 23 of the Chechen authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov cuddling up with three kittens in his Grozny palace has sparked a ...

A Russian Orthodox priest who stood up for jailed members of the all-female punk-rock collective Pussy Riot says he has been granted political asylum ...

Russian regulators have lifted a ban on VKontakte, Russia's top social-network website, hours after blacklisting the site by "mistake."

It might be the start of a solution in Bulgaria, if it isn't the start of new problems. On May 23, Plamen Oresharski became the ...

Herbert Stepic, the chief executive of Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), offered his resignation on May 24, according to a statement issued by the bank. ...

It was billed in the Ukrainian media as the wedding of the decade to be celebrated on the uniquely romantic date of September 9, 2009 ...

The plan to build a pan-Baltic nuclear power plant at Visaginas in Lithuania is not economically feasible, and now looks certain to be officially dropped, ...

With just six months before the Georgian presidential election, solid popularity ratings for the governing Georgian Dream coalition indicates it's poised for victory in October. ...

A powerful earthquake has struck off the Kamchatka peninsula in the far east of Russia, briefly triggering a tsunami warning.

Russia says Damascus has agreed "in principle" to attend an international conference on the Syria crisis set to be held in Geneva in June. Its…

… was mistakenly put on a blacklist of banned websites, but the error has now been fixed. In some parts of Russia, including St Petersburg, ...

Winter Olympics by the International Skating Union. The three spots for the Games in Sochi, Russia, are reward for Britain's results at the World…

… the semi-finals of the tournament in 2011 when he beat Stanislas Wawrinka and Sam Querrey. Ward also helped Great Britain beat Russia in the ...

Police in Russia are investigating the murder of two women found under a slogan backing the female punk rock band Pussy Riot, apparently written in ...

Two members of the female punk rock band Pussy Riot have fled Russia, the group said.

At least six people were wounded when two masked men opened fire inside a mosque in Russia's North Caucasus region Saturday night, Russian officials said ...

Authorities are investigating a bomb threat made to a Moscow-bound Aeroflot flight that took off from New York Wednesday night and was diverted to Iceland, ...

Track and field competition revs up on Saturday, but not before swimmers -- among them, the most decorated Olympian of all time -- make one ...

Italian prisoner of war and Ukrainian forced labourer were separated after falling in love during the second world ...

Assad regime agrees 'in principle' to conflict resolution initiative as Syrian opposition comes under pressure to take part ...

Russian officials behind prosecution may be using tycoon's unpopularity with Kremlin to raid his multibillion-pound assetsAlexander Lebedev's trial ...

Moscow court says raids by prosecutors were legal after hearing claims that group received millions of dollars from ...

VKontakte, which has 210 million users, was briefly put on 'blacklist' of sites barred from distributing content inside ...

The judge ruled against Maria Alyokhina, 24, saying she did not qualify for parole because she had violated prison rules, including by refusing to make ...

Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev to call martial arts expert to testify in hooliganism trial in attempt to prove he did not hit property tycoon with ...

He is the strongman leader of Chechnya, a ruthless former rebel fighter with strict Muslim habits and a passion for powerful cars and weapons. She ...

Russia's federal guard service launched an investigation after photos appeared in the media of a disgraced former employee apparently posing behind Vladimir Putin's desk in ...

Azerbaijan's Eurovision votes have been recounted on orders from the President after they snubbed Russia.

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Lev Tolstoy made the first of several walking journeys from Moscow to Tula a distance of nearly 200 ...

This issue's Uchites language learning section focuses on writer Sergei Dovlatov, who would have been 70 this month.

The end of American shuttle flights gives Russia a de facto monopoly on carrying humans to the International Space Station. What does this mean for ...

An obituary of Yelena Bonner by a fellow dissident.

Murmansk was founded 95 years ago this October. We look back at the history of its founding and its appearance in a particularly important piece ...

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Alex Jackson rounds up the action from week 40 of the Russian Premier League with Andrei Arshavin on target again as Zenit open up a ...

Zenit's win over CSKA puts them 12 points clear at the top with only five games to play

Guus Hiddink’s Anzhi were frustrated in their push for Europe as they were held to a goal-less draw by CSKA Moscow

Russian football expert, Alex Jackson observes a bruising weekend of action from the RPL

It was draws all round in the Championship Division while in the Relegation Division a foreboding chasm between those in the relegation mire and those ...

For weeks, the folks in Pennsylvania's Amish country had no idea that a Russian hockey team was ...

An independent panel will examine allegations that cycling's governing body was complicit in Lance Armstrong's doping.

The Russian and U.S. national wrestling teams met for United 4 Wrestling, a promotional competition in Los ...

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Nikolay Davydenko lost his fourth straight match Tuesday, falling 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to "lucky loser" Aljaz Bedene ...