Germany is cracking down on Russians seeking asylum. 

With your precious new bundle could come a set of household appliances, or more. 

Members of Russia's administration react to Trump's reelection. 

A Russian island in the Arctic disappeared from satellite images.

A small city in the Far East has erected a new monument to Stalin. 

The annual BRICS summit is on in Kazan. 

Soon, foreigners in Moscow will bear electronic passports that use biometric data.

In June 1996, a woman woke up on an overnight train arriving in St. Petersburg with no memory of who she was or why she was there...

A program paying mortgages in small towns has been unexpectedly successful. 

A Moscow investigator has been sentenced for receiving the largest bribe in modern Russian history. 

The Russian State Duma is proposing extra taxes for people without children. 

Russian authorities have sharply increased the budget for the Federal Penitentiary Service, despite previous plans to cut it.