Tom Balmforth covers Russia and other former Soviet republics from his base in Moscow.
Ivan Pavlov likes to joke that he got five people who were jailed for treason pardoned in 2017: four in Russia and one in the United States.
Russians took to social networks to scoff at the publication of the U.S. Treasury Department's so called oligarchs list.
Two opposition activists broadcasting on Aleksei Navalny's YouTube channel calmly continued to read the news on a day of nationwide protests over the grinding din of police cutting through the door of their studio to stop the broadcast.
At least 350 people, including opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, were detained across Russia as they rallied in support of an election boycott on January 28.
As restrictions put a crimp in high-flying efforts to expose official extravagance, Aleksei Navalny's Anticorruption Foundation is looking to up its game.
Russia's Culture Ministry has barred a black comedy about the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, arguing that is extremist and insulting.
The leader of Russia's nationwide truckers protest says his fledgling presidential election campaign, which he hoped would attract attention to his cause, fell victim to police interference.
Ahead of March elections, presidential hopeful Ksenia Sobchak is feuding with members of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's sidelined campaign.
U.S. President Donald Trump's new national security doctrine has received a cool reception in Moscow, although the Kremlin has expressed grounds for optimism.
A Russian sanitary watchdog lifts a ban on fish products from the Baltics, just in time for a Russian New Year's favorite: sprats.
An excruciating monologue and question by a fake journalist tips the scales at a whopping four minutes during Russian President Vladimir Putin's televised press conference.
With his by-now-customary questions about the war in eastern Ukraine, journalist Roman Tsymbalyuk has become a regular fixture at Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference.
The optics of Vladimir Putin’s long-awaited presidential bid announcement, which he made flanked by workmen on December 6, paves the way for a conservative campaign, analysts say.
Despite Putin vowing there won't be any official boycott, some of the distressed Russians fuming over a Winter Olympics without a single athlete in Russian colors still want athletes to stay home.
A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to his role in the 2014 hack of Yahoo’s e-mail servers, the latest development in a mysterious investigation that has ensnared officers of Russia's main security agency.
Demographers are skeptical that Vladimir Putin's new cash incentive for mothers can reverse a looming fall in the population, but analysts saw the initiative as a potentially popular move as the president steps up his reelection campaign before even having formally announced he is running.
Prominent Russian Jewish community figures have slammed public statements from a top investigator and a priest known as Vladimir Putin's confessor that give credence to an old myth that Jews murdered Nicholas II and his family in a "ritual killing."
The Chechen leader may be saying the time has come to quit his job, but analysts don't think he's going anywhere.
Weeks after European agencies reported a radiation plume, Russian authorities have finally confirmed a release from a central region. But contradictory statements, and a lack of transparency, is fueling fears about what exactly happened.
Bloggers say famous figures and innovations on a new statue ensemble have little or nothing to do with its centerpiece, Tsar Alexander III.
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