Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have been attacked by five young men at a McDonald's in Nizhny Novgorod.

The top diplomats of Russia and the U.S. agreed at their meeting on Wednesday that they should help Ukraine to implement an EU-brokered reconciliation deal, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.

In May, Ukraine will elect a president, whose history with Russia and perception by the Kremlin could advance or delay the cooling of relations with Kiev.

More than half of Ukrainians want their country to accede to the European Union, while one-third favor joining a Moscow-led alliance, a recent poll has shown.

The only English roundup of today's Russian-language newspapers.

A man in Ukraine has found a canine whose piercing gaze is strangely reminiscent of President Vladimir Putin's.

Precious Adams, 18, is set to become one of the first African-American ballerinas to finish the prestigious Bolshoi Academy.

A Russian nuclear-powered submarine operated in restricted U.S. waters for up to a month without U.S. Navy officials raising the alarm, a news report said.

An association of Russian scientists is calling for a 10-year moratorium on the production of genetically modified organisms to give the country's specialists time to study their effects on the human body.

The change in Russia's perception can be explained by the sobering effects of the global recession and the "reset" in relations.