University student Darya Kiriyichko has an allergy to alcoholic beverages. She had a drink during her coming-of-age birthday party and ended up in hospital. But her forced sobriety does not mean alcohol ...

Folk heroes and traditional figures from throughout the former Soviet Union gathered together in Belarus for a celebration.

The Sochi Olympic Village, set to house athletes during the Games from January through March, will then morph into a premium-class residential resort, with sales of apartments to start by the end ...

It's unusual for a company to expand into a foreign country - perhaps especially Russia - before conquering its home market. But with Russians flocking to Shake Shack in New York and ...

If a bright advertising sign outside your window does not let you sleep or you find the oversized letters on store signs you pass on the way to work are an eyesore, ...

More than a quarter of Russians consider the ecological situation in the country to be "close to catastrophic" and 59 percent said that there are severe ecological problems, according to a survey ...

Muscovites were asked to imagine what would make Moscow an "awesome" place to live and had their dreams visualized in 84 sketches by professional architects as part of the "What Moscow Wants" ...

Overly bureaucratic accounting rules are one of the biggest hurdles that Internet companies face when they try to start doing business in Russia, executives of new market entrants said at Moscow's fourth ...

Moscow will get a new master plan by 2015 to reflect its forthcoming transformation into a polycentric city, in which peripheral areas become alternative hubs for work and cultural activities, Mayor Sergei ...

It is hard for Moscow to compete for foreign investment with other metropolises because it offers below-average quality at above-average costs, according to a ranking that IBM presented at the annual Moscow ...