Female college students in some Russian regions can get 100,000 rubles, or about $900 at current exchange rates, for having a ...

A pro-Kremlin bloggers released a video on the Telegram social messaging app on Friday that showed Santa Claus being shot ...

Russia’s Defense Ministry is claiming that its troops in eastern Ukraine have captured the town of Kurakhove after a ...

Abylkalikov, who is now a visiting researcher in humanities and geography and environmental sciences at Northumbria University, says the Kremlin is playing Russian roulette with the lives of young ...

In the crash’s aftermath, Azerbaijan has unleashed rare and stinging criticism of Russia, with the country’s president saying ...

A Russian Telegram channel has claimed that Bashar al Assad may have been poisoned, sparking online speculation about the fate of the Syrian dictator after he fled to Moscow following his downfall.

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The Kremlin completed preparations to isolate the Russian segment of the internet from the rest of the World Wide Web, experts told VOA Russian. The Kremlin may implement severe internet ...

The cause of the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 near the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, is still unknown. The ...

says the Kremlin is playing Russian roulette with the lives of young men. “Russian volunteers heading to war are offered substantial one-time payments, ranging from 20,000 to 30,000 rubles ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, Vladimir Putin has faced persistent opposition not only in Western capitals but also inside his own country. For Russians though, criticising the ...