One popular joke in Moscow goes: "When the drunken driver was taken to the police station he was already sober. Why? Traffic jams."

In September 1991, when the Soviet Union was living out its final months, I was a first-grader with one thing on my mind: a red badge with a portrait...

Dry snow creaks under the feet of Klara Shishkina as she walks to the frozen Insar River, where a half-built bridge from the opposite bank ends in midair...

Russia will miss a 2012 deadline for destroying all of its chemical weapons, officials said as they inaugurated a major new plant to dispose of them.

A Moscow company has announced an ambitious bid to fill the vacuum in the space tourism market by stationing an orbiting hotel in the cosmos.

The high-profile extradition case of former Yevroset owner Yevgeny Chichvarkin has taken a surprise pause amid an investigation into the mysterious death...