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Russia is a country that's never short of jaw-dropping stories. Be it Moscow traffic police calling on drivers to form a human road block to stop a f...
It has all the hallmarks of a Cold War thriller, an all-American spy, complete with blonde wig, wads of cash, chiselled cheekbones and files of inform...
May Day protests are taking place on the streets of Europe, Turkey Tokyo, Jakarta, Moscow and Bangladesh, as people around the world mark Internationa...
From Pushkin to Pelevin, Dostoevsky to Shishkin, Tolstoy to Bykov - literature has always been Russia's calling card. The stories, insights into human nature, philosophical musings and debates of Russian literature and its writers continue to engage and inspire readers all over the world.
Two balaclavered women have been detained for staging an action in support of Pussy Riot in Moscow's Church of Christ the Saviour, exactly on year after the punk group held their "punk-prayer" in the cathedral.
The financial problems that most of the world's big economies first confronted in 2007-2008 are still affecting the global economy. No country can face today's challenges on its own. The time when crises were local and isolated in nature is in the past.
Less than an hour's taxi drive through the clogged traffic from Red Square something big is happening in Moscow. Bulldozers, architects, city-planners, academics, start-ups, entrepreneurs and some of the world's biggest companies are part of the Skolkovo Park, a business park that some believe to be the biggest R&D project on the planet.
The story should act as a stark warning to those hungry for fame. Anyone eagerly queuing up for 'talent show' auditions or bands gigging furiously, determined to be the 'next big thing', would do well to remember that the right to use and commercially exploit their name cannot always be guaranteed.
How do you change things? Patiently. You invest in people. You build communities around liberal ideas. You nourish dissent. Happy 20th anniversary, Moscow School of Political Studies.
With the wave of oligarchs that continue to flock to London to battle out their grievances, sadly embezzlement scandals and corruption are associations we regularly make with Russia nowadays.
In December 2011 Russia began to witness its greatest wave of protests since the fall of the Soviet Union. Protesters took to the streets in response to widespread allegations of fraud in the parliamentary elections. The anti-government protests have not stopped.
A brothel has been found operating on the premises of one of Moscow's oldest monasteries. It was located in a building rented by the Sretensky mon...
A Syrian plane intercepted by Turkey was carrying "illegal cargo" the country's foreign minister has said. Turkish authorities spent hours conducti...
The hands of the United Nations are stained with blood over its failure to stop the atrocities in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron has told the int...
The members of Russian punk trio Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail each after being found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religi...
A Russian court has upheld a ban on gay pride parades taking place in Moscow for the next 100 years. Nikolai Alexeyev, the founder of the Russian c...
Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. The band of three Russian women, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Yekate...
Five women wearing neon balaclavas who stormed the altar of Moscow's cathedral in a "punk protest" against Russia's president Vladimir Putin will lear...
A flight from New York to Moscow has been diverted after an anonymous tip about a bomb threat, according to Russian media. The news agency Interfax...
Madonna voiced her support for the imprisoned members of Russian band Pussy Riot at her concert in Moscow on Tuesday as she hailed the punk trio as "c...
Madonna has used a performance in Moscow to rail against the trial of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, calling it a "tragedy". The three members of th...
Olympics, a mega scale sporting event that unites the spirit to compete and push the boundaries of human endeavour witnesses much coveted participation from all nations in the world.
Three members of the Russian feminist punk rock band, Pussy Riot, face trial on Monday against allegations of "hooliganism". The trio performed the...
According to The Moscow Times, a field of marijuana plants has sprouted up around a metro station, after local workers planted the wrong type of seed....
Bad parking is on par with aggressively standing on the left on a Tube escalator, drinking out of the milk carton at work and leaving one square of to...
