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A well-known Russian environmental activist, known for his criticism of Olympic development in Sochi, has been sentenced to three years in jail for spray-painting a fence.

Russian electoral officials were at a loss after a candidate circumvented a ban on gifts to voters by printing out mug-shaped “campaign leaflets” on a 3D printer, media reported.

A former US Navy sailor has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempted espionage.

Residents of a small town near Moscow are complaining about a local river that has turned black with pollution, prompting authorities on Monday to investigate the source of the contamination.

The morning after an aid convoy came under fire when it tried to reach a besieged Syrian city, a meeting here on a draft resolution that would force all parties in the bloody conflict to allow access for humanitarian organizations fell apart when representatives from Russia and China failed to show up, United Nations Security […]

A reporter for Russia’s leading television channel admitted lifting huge chunks of a nationalist report about the Sochi Olympics’ opening ceremony for use in her own report, which aired over the weekend.

A prominent Russian lawyer who earlier defended members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot will engage in French litigation to oppose the extradition of an avowed opponent of the Kazakh government.

Irina Rodnina, the figure skater who lit the Olympic flame at the Sochi Games, blamed hackers on Monday for a tweet about U.S. President Barack Obama that caused a racism row.

Ukraine barred a Russian human rights campaigner from entering the country on Sunday, the Russian Human Rights Council said.

Russia’s Education and Science Minister has denounced a grassroots campaign to expose alleged academic plagiarism among high-ranking state officials.