In modern Russia, pop music, celebrity and censorship are increasingly fused into a single political tool, aimed at shaping ...

Russian anti-Kremlin feminist punk band and art collective 'Pussy Riot' was designated an extremist organisation by a Moscow ...

Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of ...

We may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed.

The pair have been close for years. Once, on a trip to Donbas, while donning a floor-length gown of shimmering magenta, teal, ...

The draw for next year’s World Cup will begin at 12 p.m. ET today, with billions of soccer fans around the globe expected to tune in. President Donald Trump will attend the ceremony at the Kennedy ...

A 1978 disco hit about Grigori Rasputin is now a viral meme. The song 'Rasputin' by Boney M. is linked to Russian President ...

Vladimir Putin said he is in good health after a two-day medical checkup despite backing out of a blood pressure test at an artificial intelligence conference, according to reports. Appearing at the ...

ON JUNE 10TH 2026 the fighting between Russia and Ukraine will have lasted longer than the first world war. That conflict, too, was supposed to have been over in a few weeks. As in Ukraine, fighting ...

Moscow, Nov 10, (dpa/GNA) – Russian authorities on Monday, prolonged the detention of a street musician in St Petersburg, for performing protest songs against President Vladimir Putin. Singer Diana ...

Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has successfully tested an (unarmed) underwater nuclear-torpedo powerful enough to “put entire states out of operation”. Speaking at an event for veterans of the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin displayed a “swollen and sore” hand that appeared covered in bulging veins during a recent press conference, igniting new speculations over his health. Putin, whose ...