The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is expected to announce its decision on whether Russia will be allowed to take part in next month's Olympic Games in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro. The historic ...

Anyone visiting the Russian capital this summer will have experienced the scale of the city government's "My Street" urban redevelopment. These involves 52 Moscow streets being dug up and reconstructed for aesthetic ...

The Russian capital may be home to almost two million Muslims — a greater number than any European city aside from Istanbul — but there are only four mosques serving the population. ...

It took over 1,000 years to gather the religious leaders of the many Eastern Orthodox churches in one place, and still, when it happened, not everyone was in attendance.

By June 19, President Vladimir Putin is expected to sign a decree that will officially kick-start the campaign season.

"Pharmacies have become like jewelry shops," complained a man during this year's annual phone-in with the Russian president.

When Moscow city deputy Alexandra Parushina asked the men in bulldozers if they had permission to tear down a 1920s housing estate in her constituency, security guards threw her to the ground.

The fall of the Soviet Union gave Russians a taste for several freedoms. Some, like freedom of expression and assembly, are no longer taken for granted.

The receptions could not have been more different. In Kiev: crowds of well-wishers, multiple TV livestreaming, press conferences. In Moscow: out of public eye and under close surveillance.

Television "is the only force that can unify and rule and bind this country," British producer and journalist Peter Pomerantsev says in his superb debut book "Nothing Is True and Everything Is ...