The Kremlin on Tuesday warned that a preliminary decision by NATO member Lithuania to lift a constitutional ban on hosting nuclear arms on its territory could lead to a new round of escalation in the ...

Law enforcement authorities have detained the head of Russia’s military theme park, Patriot Park, on bribery charges, media outlets reported and the Defense Ministry confirmed on Monday evening.

More than 1,000 people began a two-day emergency exercise at Russia’s Beloyarsk nuclear power plant on Tuesday, testing how staff and emergency services would respond to simultaneous accidents at two ...

A maternity hospital in Siberia’s Irkutsk region has started screening pregnant patients for possible plague exposure and restricting visitors following the death of a local anti-plague institute empl...

A massive Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region overnight killed two people and ignited a fire at a major fuel depot overnight, authorities said, and media reported Tuesday.

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Russian health authorities insist that the health situation in Siberia’s Irkutsk region remains stable amid concerns surrounding the death of a lab worker at a local anti-plague facility, state media ...

Anatoly Kashpirovsky, the Soviet-era hypnotist whose televised “healing sessions” drew enormous audiences in the late 1980s, died on Saturday in Moscow at the age of 87. “Anatoly Mikhailovich passed a...

Opinion | The ruling United Russia party predictably won the parliamentary elections held on Sept. 18-20,  receiving 58% of the votes and 349 of the 450 seats in the lower house state Duma.  Russian o...

Washington Capitals star Alexander Ovechkin plans to launch his own beer brand in Russia with a producer owned by Arnest, a group that has rapidly expanded by buying the Russian businesses of departin...

Yevgeny Naumov, the mayor of the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, announced his early resignation on Monday.

Russian health authorities insist that the health situation in Siberia’s Irkutsk region remains stable amid concerns surrounding the death of a lab worker at a local anti-plague facility, state media ...

At last week’s meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, President Vladimir Putin praised Chinese cars and predicted that “we will all soon be driving” them. “Whether that’s good or bad, I don’t know, bu...

Russia hit on Sunday the Northern bridge over the Dnipro river in Kyiv, targeting a route used to transport troops and military cargo, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Russia will intensify strikes on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday, responding to an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he vowed ...

The sound of air raid sirens and explosions rang out in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Sunday as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived for a visit to show support for President Volodymyr Zelensky amid e...

OPEC+ is set to keep oil production targets steady for November, three sources close to the matter said ahead of the group's meeting on Sunday.

Ukraine will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow designed to force people to abandon Kyiv and other cities, but will not target civilian...

Russia said on Saturday it would continue to carry out targeted retaliatory strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and urged foreign nationals and diplomats to leave the capital.

The Trump administration’s talks with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to U.S...

A Russian court sentenced a former deputy governor of the southern Krasnodar region to 14 years in prison for abuse of authority and organizing the theft of supplies intended for troops fighting in Uk...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko reaffirmed his alignment with Russia over its war in Ukraine on Friday, despite highlighting nuances in his own perspective on the conflict.

Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has joined the supervisory board of Hyperglobus, the Russian arm of the German superstore chain Globus, business media reported Friday.

A military court in Russia’s Zabaikalsky region sentenced Indigenous Buryat activist Marina Khankhalaeva to 20 years in prison in absentia for organizing an extremist group and participating in a terr...

Pushkin House in London has opened a new bookshop designed by Alexander Brodsky, the renowned Russian architect known for projects including the Joseph Brodsky museum in St.

Russia said on Friday it would consider a partial lifting of diesel export restrictions in case of overproduction, raising the prospect of a possible reprieve for global fuel markets strained by war a...

Russia plans to raise defense spending to a post-Soviet high next year while cutting civilian programs and increasing taxes, signaling that the Kremlin is bracing for a prolonged war in Ukraine despit...

Ukrainian drone attacks targeted industrial facilities in southern Russia’s Volgograd and Krasnodar regions, officials and media reported Friday.

Seven people were killed in an explosion at a chemical plant in Russia’s Moscow region, the Telegram news channel Shot reported, as emergency crews responded to a fire at the facility.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that international conflicts were highly likely to continue as the world changed, but that the situation would get better as what he called Western he...

Artyom Dzyuba, Russia's all-time leading scorer and former national football team captain, said Thursday that his professional playing career was likely over.

Russia believes it could already be working with the United States on mutually beneficial economic projects, the Kremlin said Thursday, calling it unfortunate that Washington was linking progress on s...

The Russian Orthodox Church has denied reports that Russian troops abandoned fragments of the remains of St.

Jailed gulag historian Yury Dmitriev is in stable condition after a suspected stroke, but concerns remain over his access to adequate medical care, a person familiar with his case told The Moscow Time...

A Moscow military court has ordered a senior Russian general responsible for military training facilities and equipment held in pre-trial detention in a criminal case whose details have not been discl...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it would expel an unspecified number of Hungarian diplomats in a tit-for-tat move.

The Russian government on Wednesday submitted its three-year draft federal budget for 2027-29 to the State Duma, with this year’s deficit nearly doubling from previous projections, amid soaring war sp...

Ksenia Maximova was ranked among the world’s 50 most successful models in the 2000s, but today is better known as a prominent figure in Russia’s anti-war movement in London.  Since 2022, Maximova has ...

Russian writers who back Moscow’s war in Ukraine have complained that they lack state backing and struggle to reach a broad readership, the Ostorozhno Novosti news outlet reported.

Russian exports to Turkey fell about 40% in August to their lowest monthly value since 2022, as Ukrainian attacks on southern Russian ports disrupted shipments, the Vedomosti newspaper reported, citin...

Authorities in Russia’s Far East Zabaikalsky region have introduced a bounty for bear culling in the region to curb the sharp rise in dangerous encounters with humans.  The regional ministry of natura...

Papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi discussed humanitarian issues in the Ukraine war in talks with Russian officials and visited Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Authorities in several Russian regions are turning to residents and businesses to pay for bomb shelters and protection against drone attacks, local media reported, as the country restores its civil de...

The Russian government said on Wednesday it was drawing up urgent measures to control the population of brown bears that has spiraled out of control in some regions, with at least 22 people killed in ...

Opinion | The first session of Russia’s State Duma after the 2026 parliamentary elections opened with a 20-second standing ovation for the newly elected “participants in the special military operation...

Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov said Wednesday that he formally asked Russian law enforcement authorities to investigate reports that independent political analyst Alexander Kynev was beaten an...