This week, mammoths are ripe for the picking; fishy business practices turn violent; and a TV show is labelled a bad influence on Russian families.

Russia has fallen under suspicion for testing what some say is an anti-satellite weapon.

The President of Russia's neighboring Belarus says he had coronavirus, but even that didn't keep him down.

Russia and Turkey are split over the use of an iconic Istanbul— er, Constantinople— monument.

The newly-released 2020 Global Peace Index has some surprising findings.

In these difficult times, let’s celebrate life. Specifically, five Russians (from a diplomat to an conductor to an activist) who happen to share today, June 4, as their birthday.

Russia's space agency says it's ready to partner with NASA to go to the moon.

On this day in 1564, one of Terrible's most trusted confidantes defected. But they kept in touch.

This little-known treaty actually set the stage for the devastation of Europe that was to come.

“You know, it got to the point that they give such nasty information on [channel] Rossiya 1. Ah, the old man treats his people there with a tractor, vodka, a bath...  But why are you making fools of us in Russia? Why should a Russian person get it into their head that there, in the West, our Belarusans, they’re some kind of crazy?"

- President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on bias in Russian media against Belarusans

The US President's decree on lunar resource extraction has the Russian space community crying foul.

A look at how the Jesuits, Pope Francis, and Georgetown University all share an interesting connection to Russia.