When the CEO of Russian state gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, opened a lavish Italian palazzo-styled building in central St ...

The sanctioned Russian ship Northern Lights, transporting military equipment from Russian bases in Syria, ran aground near ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

S7 Airlines has stopped its $83 million project to build a new factory to make turbine blades in Sant Petersburg ...

Sat in a Moscow theatre, Pavel wiped tears as he watched actors perform a dramatised version of his life: from his childhood ...

The Soviet chess giant lived a checkered life, flitting between top-level clashes against the best players of the era and ...

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Koshelev, it said, had been part of a group that had stolen $1.5 million at gunpoint from a courier at St Petersburg's ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated at the height of the Cold War, has died at 88, the Russian ...