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Russia’s media watchdog requested the Daily Stormer neo-Nazi website be blocked on Thursday

Any Jehovah’s Witnesses Administrative Center activities in Russia as well as 395 local branches are now banned

The Pew report found that just 26 percent of respondents worldwide trust Putin’s foreign policy.

It is reportedly the first time a “Last Address” activist has been prosecuted

Maria Zakharova said it was “a proven fact” that the White Helmets falsified its humanitarian work

President Vladimir Putin made a timely public appearance on Wednesday

The translator also avoided a question on U.S. Donald President Trump

The Russian Athletics Federation has disqualified five Russian athletes for doping

Alexei Ulyukayev Faces 15 Years Behind Bars for Bribery

A Russian citizen accused of plotting attacks on American military planes has refused extradited from Turkey

A spate of archeological findings in the capital is reportedly muddying Moscow’s history

The annual report produced by the state United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said Russian authorities’ policy

“I’m afraid now that after such a suggestion, I won’t be allowed to go to America!”

Most are from Russia’s North Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, Anna Kuznetsova said.

Taxi prices in Moscow have plummeted since the arrival of app providers Yandex-Taxi, Gett and Uber.

Several activists and journalists were pepper sprayed by a group of nationalists on Saturday

Cuts to defense spending next year will not affect plans to re-equip the Russian Armed Forces, Putin Says

Russian illustrator and designer Max Degtyarev images what would happen if the zombie apocalypse came to the Moscow metro

The agent was said to be attempting an attack on electricity infrastructure

An investigation will not be completed until late this year

An activist is being prosecuted for installing a memorial plaque on the home of a victim of Soviet repression

Washington has no legal grounds to close Russian consulates in the United States, Maria Zakharova said on Sunday

Memorial said it considered the persecution of March 26 participants to be “politically motivated, targeted at intimidating critics of the authorities.”

Two potential suicide bombers, an explosives expert and an “emissary” of Islamic State have been detained.

But Russia still lags behind many other countries

The Russian publisher the “Shades of Magic” series says it did so to comply with anti-gay legislation.

The 2017 International Army Games’ “Tank Biathlon” was held from July 29 to Aug. 12 in Moscow’s Alabino region.

Alexei Pushkov said Western nations were to blame for appeasing Hitler at the Munich Conference in September 1938

LGBT activists faced off with police and far-right protesters in the city’s largest pride march in years

More than a decade ago, Kifakh Bata moved to Russia. Now he’s ‘saving souls’

A Moscow court on Friday ordered Navalny to remove excerpts of YouTube video that accuse Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov of bribery

Speaking Friday at the Klyazma forum for students, Lavrov described the rhetoric in Washington and Pyongang as “over the top.”

Russia’s first fifth-generation fighter jet will receive the designation Su-57

“I am stripped of my passport. I can’t leave anymore,” Serebrennikov told the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The animal was able to swim to sea when the tide came in and rescuers were monitoring its progress.

If you come to Moscow this summer, 15 minutes after you leave the customs area at the airport you will hear talk of моя улица (my street).

A 13-meter-long whale was at risk of dying after being stranded on an island in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Aeroflot has sharply increased prices for flights to host cities during the 2018 World Cup in Russia

Washington could force Russia to shutter one of four consulates in the United States

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was “thankful” to President Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia

National Park rangers on the island “risked their lives” to approach the whale in a small boat to keep it wet and alive until the tide rises.

St. Petersburg on Thursday commemorated the Soviet defense of the city from the Nazis

A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced Russian journalist Alexander Sokolov to three and a half years in jail for extremism, in a case Sokolov described as “Orwellian.”

A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced a man to four years in prison for punching and kicking two police officers at an unsanctioned protest against corruption.

Turkish law enforcement has detained a Russian citizen suspected of planning to down American military aircraft using a drone, Turkish media reports.

The corruption case has caused an outcry in artistic circles where it is seen as intimidation and an attempt to muzzle the theater — which is among the most progressive in Russia.

It passed near the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and other government buildings.

Two regions in southern Russia are trying to ban the local release of a film about the love affair of Russia’s last Tsar with a ballerina, saying it is offensive

They propose moving the tribute to Tsoi, frontman of the “Kino” group, to Luzhniki in Moscow, or St. Petersburg — Tsoi’s birth city, the report cited Arbat District head Yevgeny Babenko as saying.

Since Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula in March 2014, Crimeans have suffered repeated power shortages

In total, roughly 52,000 links were blocked by the agency.

Summer may have arrived two months late this year, but now that it’s here you get to enjoy Moscow’s outdoor activities. Our pick for this weekend is a trip to India — in Sokolniki Park.

He spent almost three days in 40 degrees Celsius heat and without any food or water.

German sportswear retailer Adidas plans to close around 160 outlets in Russia this year due to falling sales, the RBC new agency reported on Wednesday, citing the company’s management.  Chief executive Kasper Rorsted told RBC he expected the Russian market would continue to shrink because of Western sanctions imposed over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine and the low price of oil, Russia’s main export.Russia’s economy contracted in 2015 and 2016.“We have already closed more than 100 stores [this year] and will close another fifty by the end of the year,” Rorsted was cited as saying.Adidas has been closing stores in Russia for at least two years but still had 840 outlets as of March, according to RBC.The company is not the only retailer to pull back from Russia. River Island, New Look and department store chain Stockmann have all quit the country since 2014.

In 2015, Ukraine passed a law that mandated the removal of all the country’s Lenin monuments. Over 5,000 have been torn down in Leninopad (the Lenin-fall). A new book documents this remarkable transformation.