The protests that rippled across Russia ahead of Vladimir Putin’s fourth inauguration as president followed a familiar script.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Sunday condemned an armed attack on a church in the mainly Muslim region of Chechnya in which two police officers...
Four gunmen attacked a Russian Orthodox church in the mostly Muslim Russian province of Chechnya, but were killed by security forces in a clash Saturday that...
Speaking Russian with a strong Italian accent, Andrea Palmeri attracts attention in Lugansk, the separatist-held province in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has unveiled the names for a new generation of nuclear-powered missiles touted by President Vladimir Putin as invincible after more than 7 million...
Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan region.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill on Sunday called on Russians to vote in upcoming presidential elections expected to extend President...
Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned U.S. President Donald Trump Sunday to thank him for a CIA tip that helped thwart a series of bombings in St....
A Russian Orthodox Church panel looking into the 1918 killing of Russia's last czar and his family says it's investigating whether it was a ritual murder - a...
They played key roles in Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which triggered a civil war that killed millions, devastated the country and redrew its borders.
A film about the last Russian czar’s affair with a ballerina had its Moscow premiere Tuesday, despite sparking outrage among some Russians – expressed through...
Russia on Thursday approved the cinema release of a racy film about Tsar Nicholas II's affair with a ballerina, despite protests from opponents and even...
Two members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were detained Monday after a protest outside the prison colony where a Ukrainian filmmaker is being...
A Russian court Thursday convicted a video blogger of inciting hatred against believers by posting videos online showing him chasing Pokemons in a church,...
A Russian blogger was convicted Thursday of inciting religious hatred for playing “Pokemon Go” in a church, and given a suspended sentence.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Gregorius III Lahham as patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the state-run National News Agency...
MOSCOW – Russia is locked in a battle between official history (the story of the state) and counterhistory (the story of civil society and the memories of the...
The Dutch election was the first bright spot in a while for people in Europe and the United States who are deeply worried that the backlash against...
Saint or playboy, blood-stained autocrat or family man, incompetent leader or just a victim of circumstance?
Thousands of people in Russia's second-largest city held competing demonstrations Sunday for and against the return of the renowned St. Isaac's Cathedral to...