Two members of the punk protest band Pussy Riot accused Moscow on Monday of obstructing their campaign to improve conditions in Russia’s jails, and called for international
A gunman who killed two people and wounded six in an Orthodox church in Russia’s Far East on the weekend has confessed to the crime, investigators said Monday.
Russia’s major satellite provider stopped broadcasting Dozhd independent television channel Monday after the network became embroiled into a controversy over an opinion poll about World War II.
A gunman has opened fire inside a cathedral on the eastern Russian island of Sakhalin, killing a nun and a churchgoer, say reports.
A terminally ill retired Russian naval officer who reportedly shot himself after being denied painkillers died in the hospital Monday, doctors said.
President Vladimir V. Putin on Thursday signed legislation merging Russia’s two top courts in a controversial decision seen by many as meant to consolidate the Kremlin’s power over the country’s judicial system.
More than 200 leading authors including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Franzen have condemned Russia’s anti-gay and blasphemy laws as a “chokehold” on creativity.
Russia’s faux-lesbian pop duo tATu are to reform for Friday’s opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, organizers have confirmed.
The US government has banned all liquids from carry-on bags on nonstop flights to Russia, on the eve of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
The Sochi Winter Olympics saw what could be the first protest by an athlete Thursday when a Russian snowboarder competed with a design on his board apparently resembling a member of the opposition punk group Pussy Riot.
