Since Russian troops invaded and annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, world topography has struggled to place the international border between the two countries. Research engines, academic textbooks, businesses and other world organizations have ...

A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin is to be erected in the central Russian town of Surgut, the Meduza news website reported Tuesday. Local civic group “Russkiy Dukh,” or “The Russian ...

Seven Russian swimmers will not be able to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics due to their involvement in doping, according to an online statement posted Monday by the International Federation of ...

The Russian government has decided to allocate 100 billion rubles ($1.5 billion) to building a highway connecting the capital of Crimea, Simferopol, to the town of Kerch, the Slon news website reported ...

The five alleged killers of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have asked to stand trial in front of a jury, the RBC news website reported Monday. The preliminary hearing for the case took ...

Moscow City Hall has announced the launch of its own version of online game “Pokemon Go.” Russians will be asked to find and "catch" historical figures in the streets of the capital ...

Russia's consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has been ordered to investigate the “possible harmful psychological effects” of the viral mobile game Pokemon Go, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday. Growing mobs of Muscovites ...

http://tass.ru/en/defense/889207http://www.themoscowtimes.com/articles/chaos-in-russias-baltic-fleet-54465A special military commission has begun its reinspection of the Baltic Fleet after its entire senior command was purged in late June, governmental news agency TASS reported Tuesday.The reinspection will check “progress ...

One in four Russians have considered emigration this year, up from 2015, mostly due to a “higher quality of life” abroad, a poll by the independent Levada Center found. The poll found ...

A selection of rare photographs from the Thaw, that period in post-war Soviet history from the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 and the ouster of Khrushchev in 1964 when the country ...