In a wood on the edge of St Petersburg they're reading out a list of names. Each name is a victim of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's Great Terror. In this part of ...

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A group of young Russian street musicians who went viral on social media for playing banned anti-Kremlin songs received more jail time on Wednesday, as authorities ...

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A teenage Russian street musician was jailed for 13 days on Thursday after she played a banned anti-Kremlin song on St Petersburg's central avenue. Diana Loginova, an ...

LONDON -- A Russian court on Tuesday extended Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's pre-trial detention until at least June 30. The journalist was arrested in March 2023 by Russia's powerful ...

Vigilante groups are increasingly taking control of Russia’s streets and imposing their version of nationalist, pro-Kremlin order as police leave for higher salaries fighting in the war in Ukraine.

Residents in Novorossiysk, Russia, were stunned on November 12 when a massive water main burst, sending a 32-foot-high jet of ...

A crowd of people gathering in St. Petersburg sang an anti-war song by a Russian musician deemed a “foreign agent” in a video that has gone viral. The clips widely circulated on Telegram showed the ...

Russian investigators have formally charged Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich with espionage, Russian state media reported Friday, adding he denied the accusations. "The FSB investigation ...