Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will be looking to trumpet their commitment to reducing nuclear arms when they meet in Moscow next week. Resetting U.S.-...

At the Metelitsa casino, the oldest private gambling house in Moscow, which opened in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union, they are packing up the card shoes and...

Filed under: Sports, News, Weird Passengers on a new cruise along the coast of Somalia are paying to catch more than just salmonella. A Russian luxury yacht company is...

NATO and Russia are likely to resume formal military ties Saturday at their first high-level meeting since last year’s war between Russia and Georgia. Relations...

Once it would have been Cold War rhetoric and “fraternal greetings” to Marxist guerrillas. Yesterday Russia returned to Africa in a scramble to restore its...

The leader, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, president of Ingushetia, was being driven to work in a motorcade when it was hit by an enormous bomb. One or more of his bodyguards may...

In a strange demonstration of what we would call supernatural celebrity power, Brad Pitt, or rather his cardboard cutouts seem to be helping ease traffic problems in...

Tired of trying your hands with the computer in a game of chess? Now, here is a robot from Russia, designed to play chess and frequently beat you at it. The robot’s...

Anatoly Boiko stands in front of a pile of neatly sawn planks. The wood, he says, is one of the oddest government handouts he’s ever received. To help the...

The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday,...

Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms. In the...

High level Kremlin officials close to Prime Minister Putin have expressed deep concerns with regard to the delays to law enforcement actions being sanctioned by...

Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led...

President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who rarely misses a chance to accuse the United States of causing the global financial crisis, told an economic forum on Friday that...

Filed under: News, Weird, Nature Motorcycle riding offers a unique sense of freedom and excitement, but these advantages are weighed against significant safety issues....

The Russian nesting doll, the pride of a nation, is in trouble. For more than 200 years, the matryoshka has come to symbolise Russian handicraft at its finest, the...

Feral children are long known to display animal behavior but here is a case of a five-year-old Russian girl who has been raised in a city but who barks and behaves like...

Months of infighting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev over Russia’s budget ended on Monday - with Medvedev on top. At a...

As a young officer fresh out of a Soviet military academy, Alexander Primak was assigned to serve in this frontier city in the Russian Far East, eight time zones away...