Yegor Chastukhin, an 18-year-old environmental activist, holds a flask to a drain spurting out warm, putrid water near the historic city of Penza in western...

The news that American basketball player Brittney Griner had arrived in the IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia, also known as the Russian "land of prisons,"...

After talks last week failed to ease fears, the White House warned that Russia was ready to attack Ukraine at "any point."

Memorial is facing its biggest threat since being founded by Soviet dissidents in 1989.

The pressure on Memorial comes after a year that saw an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition and independent media.

Outside the capital, underfunded and poorly staffed hospitals in the regions are struggling to cope with a surge in virus patients.

Independent election monitors said they received reports of ballot stuffing and other irregularities.

A decade of cooperation between the U.S. and Russia to send astronauts into space could be ending.

The poor North Caucasus region has the fifth-highest number of coronavirus cases in Russia.

The Russian capital's residents are eager for a "return to normality" as the coronavirus has battered the economy.

This week, President Vladimir Putin announced the extension of a lockdown period in Russia to slow the spread of the coronavirus until April 30.

World of Tanks creator launches the Direct Democracy party as Kremlin-backed political shake-up accelerates.