A Russian military helicopter gunship accidentally fired on spectators during war games in western Russia, a news website reported Tuesday, adding the two people were injured. The Russian military acknowledged the incident, but insisted that no one was hurt and refrained from saying when it ...
In an escalating tit-for-tat, the United States forced Russia on Thursday to shutter its consulate in San Francisco and scale back its diplomatic presence in Washington and New York, as relations between the two former Cold War foes continued to unravel. The Trump administration said ...
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer is acknowledging that the president's company considered building a Trump Tower in Moscow during the Republican primary, but the plan was abandoned "for a variety of business reasons." The attorney, Michael Cohen, disclosed the details Monday to the House intelligence ...
A man walked up to a journalist broadcasting live from a Moscow park on a popular Russian television channel and punched him in the face. The journalist was reporting Wednesday for the NTV channel from the park, which was filled with former paratroopers lazing in ...
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow accused Russian authorities on Monday of barring diplomatic staff from a property on the outskirts of Moscow, after having earlier agreed to grant access until midday on Tuesday for them to retrieve belongings. A Russian foreign ministry official, quoted by ...
No Russian political leader is offering a vision ambitious and inspiring enough to compete with Putin. Perhaps that's why he finds it so easy to suppress dissent and hold on to power.
Yaroslav Nikitenko, a 29-year-old physicist and environmental activist, woke up on April 12 to a frightening sight. Graffiti daubed next to the door of his Moscow apartment read, 'Shut the hell up or ..." and alongside it was a drawing of a gravestone bearing Nikitenko's ...
A plane carrying Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was buzzed by a NATO F-16 fighter jet as it flew over the Baltic Sea, but was chased away by a Russian military jet, the TASS news agency reported on Wednesday. TASS said the NATO plane had ...
U.S. film director Oliver Stone. Stone's four-part interview with Russia's president has been criticized for being a homage more than a questioning.
Almost a million and a half people turned out in central Moscow on Monday for the annual May Day parade, many more than in past years, Russian police said. "Nearly 1.5 million people marched on May 1," police said in a statement quoted by Interfax ...
The embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin has lain in a mausoleum on Red Square since his death in 1924 but now, a century after the revolution he spearheaded, legislation designed to turf him out has been introduced into the Russian parliament. The communist party, which ...
Thousands of Russians demonstrated across the country Sunday to protest corruption, defying bans on rallies which were called by prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny — who was later arrested along with scores of others. Navalny called for the protests after publishing a detailed report this ...
