A man convicted of taking part in a massive terror attack in southern Russia 10 years ago died in a detention center Friday after a lengthy hunger strike, RIA Novosti cited his ...

A host of Russian pop stars and producers have come out against a reported proposal to create a patriotic superstar incubator, the Kommersant newspaper reported Tuesday.

The mayor of the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk who had unofficially promised to allow a gay parade to go ahead on Paratroopers Day — a day notorious for drunken fistfights and ...

Putin's reported distance-diagnosis as having Asperger's syndrome makes him the latest in a long line of Russian rulers whose actions the world has sought to explain as being the result of an ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is to get a total of 2 billion rubles ($40 million) from the federal budget for the creation of spiritual enlightenment centers, a news report said Friday.

New generations of U.S. citizens are growing up in Russia. They do not, as a rule, speak fluent English. They have generally never lived in the U.S. In fact, they may have ...

A century after the most daring artistic minds of Russia joined forces under the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and took Europe by storm with the arts extravaganza that came to be known collectively ...

Architectural projects for the redevelopment of New Holland Island in St. Petersburg are now on show as the island opened to the public for the first time in its 300-year history.