Russian officials and the media widely celebrated the International Olympic Committee’s decision on Sunday not to impose a blanket ban on the Russian team. But for track-and-field athletes, it dealt a final ...

Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down while walking home over the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin late one February evening in 2015. The killing of such a prominent figure just ...

For several months in 2010, the group known as the Primorsky Partizany targeted police in violent attacks. It was an instance of armed civilian resistance to the authorities unrivaled in Russian contemporary ...

Dmitry Puzyryovsky, 27, was ready to rave. Part of a group of ten friends, some of whom had traveled especially for the occasion from St. Petersburg and Minsk, he had tickets to ...

"It looks like we've taken Russia." These are not the words of Napoleon.

For Russia’s sports minister, 2016 is likely to go down as the most turbulent year of his life — and that is saying something.

When, last month, a girl in Canada shared a photo on social media of her bloodied feet after a work shift in heels as a waitress, it triggered a wave of condemnation ...

A day after the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, Felix Glykman and his boyfriend went to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. They were carrying with them a sign saying "Love Wins."

Igor Pushkaryov had just under nine hours to contemplate his sudden change in fortune — the time it takes to fly to Moscow from Russia's Pacific port city of Vladivostok.

When the son of a top Russian oil executive recorded a multi-hour chase with Russian traffic police, he thought it would bring him social media stardom.