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For the first time, the Hermitage Museum is hosting an exhibition without a single original item.

To celebrate The Moscow Times’ 25th anniversary, I’m walking down a linguistic memory lane…

Russian radio hosts insist that their report on male mortality rates is not related to tomorrow’s date

Russian radio hosts insist that their report on male mortality rates is not related to tomorrow’s date

Russia has gone a bit blockchain bonkers.

Former British spy Christopher Steele to discuss his dossier on Donald Trump’s Russia ties with Robert Mueller

The train was traveling from St. Petersburg to Nizhny Novgorod on Thursday night

A recent wave of false bomb threats swept 50 Russian regions

People are scared to work with RT, Simonyan says

St. Petersburg authorities have rejected more than 10 applications to hold events with Navalny this Saturday,

The first phone from the limited-edition set is reserved for the president himself

The terrorist group showed a video of two Russian soldiers earlier this week

Alphabet removed RT from YouTube’s package that charges premium ad rates

Up to 20,000 Russian citizens own property in Catalonia

The initial law was written before the existence of social networks

On Thursday morning Russian authorities raided the homes of opposition activists working for exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The opposition leader has called on his supporters to take to the streets this weekend from behind bars

Oct. 7 could see protests in 80 cities

Without the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, Russia might have become considerably more prosperous and populous

Samuel Raphael Friedman was an American idealist. His dreams to build a socialist utopia ended with his execution as a spy.

President Vladimir Putin took part in the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow on Wednesday.

Ever find yourself walking in circles?

Russia’s Supreme Court has refused to overturn the conviction of a man who participated in mass 2012 anti-Kremlin protests, flouting a ruling from Europe’s top human rights court.

A member of a Russian military order known as the Cossacks told the RBC news outlet he recognized one of the captives as a fellow Cossack.

On Oct. 5, 1957, the main headline on Pravda’s front page said the country should prepare for winter. The real news of the day, however, was somewhat clumsily placed at the right margin.

Two men presented to Russia’s human rights ombudswoman as evidence that individuals which have been reported missing are still alive, were actually their brothers, the human rights group Memorial says.

Five men were sentenced for Politkovskaya’s murder in 2014, but the organizer of assassination has yet to be brought to justice

“It will be the first time ever worldwide that a ring can be used as payment for public transport.”

Moscow threatened retaliation on Monday after it said U.S. agents broke into the San Francisco consulate building’s residential section

Navalny was jailed for 20 days on Oct. 2 for calling for organizing unauthorized campaign events

In a released video ISIS claims it captured two Russian soldiers near the city of Deir-al-Zor

Putin expressed his condolences during a ceremony in the Kremlin receiving foreign ambassadors’ credentials

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov hailed Poklonskaya for her patriotism on Telegram

Russian companies are still feeling shockwaves from the 2008 financial crisis and shrinking government budgets

Earlier this year, Russian state media branded the ball-bearing gadgets “the toy of the opposition”

The academic panel may revoke the Culture Minister’s PhD because of errors and bias

A new search of the consulate building provoked a harsh response from the Foreign Ministry

Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 20 days in jail for repeatedly violating Russian anti-protest laws

The FSB said Monday’s detainees were part of an Islamic State sleeper cell led by “foreign emissaries.”

Prosecutors referred to photographs uploaded to the social media site My Space as evidence of espionage.

Fewer Russians are afraid of falling victim to terrorist attacks five months after the deadly St. Petersburg metro bombing

Huntsman arrives to Moscow on a promise of cultivating a “necessary” relationship with Russia at a time of precarious diplomatic ties

“Not for the first time I see how the West is cynical and hypocritical.”

I’ve always wondered about that Life magazine cover in the Diner — the one with two schoolboys, one Russian, one American, staring out of the cover.

I’ve always wondered about that Life magazine cover in the Diner — the one with two schoolboys, one Russian, one American, staring out of the cover.

Ahead of presidential elections next March, a wave of governor dismissals has swept Russia

Even as relations spiral, Washington’s new ambassador is talking tough

Putin’s ultimate goal seems to be to win over Turkey from the West’s sphere of influence