The Dutch team Ajax will open in June the first kids soccer camp in Russia run by a foreign club, organizers said at a press conference Friday.

A high-ranking federal official said Wednesday that Moscow City Hall would cooperate with opposition leader Alexei Navalny's communal services project RosZhKKh, even while Navalny dismissed the announcement as "nonsense."

A United Russia lawmaker on Tuesday proposed that legislation in response to the U.S. Magnitsky Act be named in honor of a Russian toddler who died in the care of an American ...

The Prosecutor General's Office said Monday that it had discovered more than 1.7 million human rights violations over the first half of 2012, as European lawmakers continue to criticize Russia for its ...

The family of Ivan Agafonov, who died after being punched by mixed martial arts champion Rasul Mirzayev, on Thursday appealed Mirzayev's conviction on manslaughter charges as too lenient.

Even as the government wages a high-profile anti-corruption campaign, Russia remains in the bottom third of Transparency International's corruption index, released Wednesday. The nation ranked on par with Kazakhstan, Iran and Honduras.

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov assured investors in New York on Tuesday that Russia's response to the Magnitsky bill would not affect trade.

Investigators have questioned a Novaya Gazeta journalist over a February blog post that they say incited mass riots.

A Chechen native who prosecutors say killed disgraced military colonel Yury Budanov last year to avenge the death of his father pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Now that FIFA has finished choosing the host cities for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the race is on to build hotels there.