The tsars are remembered for their lavish palaces – monuments of decadence that encouraged peasants and factory workers to take up arms in the Russian Revolution. But Peter the Great, the tsar who ...

Red Square and VDNKh easily rank among the most striking places I've visited -- both for their historical significance and ...

MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, has been selected to host the Russian Weightlifting Championship in 2025, Dmitry Vasilenko, the secretary general of the Russian ...

Noted Russian opposition activist Vitaly Ioffe was killed in the northwestern city of St. Peterburg, a relative told RFE/RL on September 17. Russian media also reported about Ioffe's killing, citing ...

The group, called Stoptime, had been performing anti-Kremlin songs for months and gaining in popularity before the ...