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Statistics for 2016 show that spending on oncology treatment has fallen in almost half of Russia’s 85 regions.

BuzzFeed’s investigation plays into a dominant narrative within the West where “Russia is to blame.”

Three Roscosmos satellites were damaged after a Proton-M rocket produced by Russia’s Khrunichev Center crashed in 2013.

The former head of the Russian Authors’ Society (RAO), Sergei Fedotov, has been jailed for 18 months.

The former head of Moscow’s Gogol Center theater has been detained by police as part of an ongoing fraud investigation.

For many children, even ordinary domestic pets are magical creatures. Here are our top places for kids to interact with animals in safe, sanitary, and humane settings.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification, died Friday at the age of 87.

Three people have been injured following a collision between two trains at Moscow’s Kursky rail terminal.

Russian travel agents have seen sales of package holidays to Crimea fall by almost a third, new data has revealed.

For Rabbi Yaakov Klein, Moscow is about building community.

The 42-year old cleric has an unusual and, for the Church, controversial passions in the literary field.

This week viewers four hours of pretend-important chit-chat, three great Russian films and two young adult features that will by turns rev your engines and make idling in neutral seem adventurous.

Russia currently blocks 6.3 million websites, according to internet freedom watchdog Rublacklist.net.

The head of Russia’s Old Believers has called on Russian men to stop shaving in a bid to “protect themselves from homosexuality.”

Ongoing forest fires in Siberia have more than tripled in size over the past two days, Russian officials have announced.

In a dimly lit hotel room, a pack of 20-year-olds in sweatsuits stare into computer screens lining the wall. But this is much more than your average college party: these are Russia’s cybersport superstars.

Independent Russian news outlet RBC has been bought by oligarch Grigory Berezkin, Russia’s Dozhd television channel reported Friday.

Our selection of the best contemporary art exhibitions to see in Moscow right now.

Our selection of the best contemporary art exhibitions to see in Moscow right now.

Russia is introducing tough security measures ahead of the Confederations Cup

Up to 82 percent of U.S. adults now see Russia as a threat.

The Russian Foreign Ministry is investigating reports that a Russian yacht was seized in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday by a North Korean ship.

Risk-taking marinades and eclectic ingredients eclipse the French classics at this new restaurant near Kropotkinskaya.

President Putin’s annual question and answer session is a carefully choreographed affair. And then some uncomfortable questions snuck onscreen.

At his annual “Direct Line” question and answer session broadcast live on television, Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped short of announcing he will run for the presidency in elections scheduled for March.

Russia’s nation-wide anti-corruption protests have already led to hundreds of arrests. But Russian President Vladimir Putin remained mostly silent on these matters — until very late into his annual telethon.

President Putin has two options: retaliate in kind, and forfeit hopes for repairing ties with Washington, or risk being exposed as weak in defense of Russia’s interests.

Villagers in Russia’s Far Eastern region of Kamchatka have been warned not to leave their homes after a volcanic eruption showered the area in waves of ash.

The Theater of Nations brings Buckingham Palace back to the heart of Moscow with a Russian adaptation of Peter Morgan’s West End hit.

Russian journalists were obliged to wait until Putin opened up to a complete stranger — a foreigner — to report that he was a happy and loving grandfather.

In the last few months, Navalny has taken a quantum leap, establishing himself as the only true and energetic opponent of Putin in Russian politics.

Moscow authorities’ controversial demolition program has passed its third and final reading in the Russian parliament Wednesday.

Firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the World Cup stadium in the Russian city of Volgograd.

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin claimed that sanctions against Russia and Belarus stem from the West’s contempt for Slavs

The audience of Direct Line, a live question and answer session with President Putin, were gathered at a health resort outside Moscow where they were briefed on how to behave during the upcoming show.

The menu promised tapas and expert recommendations – but where was the sommelier?

Former members of Ukraine’s special forces, known as Berkut, were sighted working as OMON riot police at yesterday’s anti-corruption protests in Russia, reported Ukrainian news outlet LB.ua.

The latest numbers are in, and the forecast for Russia’s demographic health is bleak.

More than 1,000 people were detained across Russia on Monday after the latest wave of anti-corruption protests.

The protests coincided with “Russia Day,” a national holiday.

For Tommy Yang, Moscow is a far cry from Beijing.

An unsanctioned anti-corruption protest in Moscow has resulted in scores of arrests.

A massive unsanctioned protest rally is taking place in Moscow, as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny asked people to take to Tverskaya street in the center of the city instead of Prospekt Sakharova where the protest rally was agreed with the authorities. Thousands of muscovites took to Tverskaya and an hour after the rally started dozens have been detained.  The Moscow Times reporter saw Ilya Yashin, a well known opposition activist, being dragged into a police wagon. Another protestor has been taken after he started wagging with a sheet of paper that looked like a protest banner. An hour after the rally started police started separating the crowd into groups and then isolating them from each other.Alexei Navalny changed the place of the rally to unauthorized location after the authorities, as he had claimed, didn’t let him install sound equipment for the demonstration that had been planned and agreed. “We have our constitutional right to gather peacefully with political demands”, Navalny told his supporters on his YouTube channel. He was detained earlier today at the entrance of his house when he headed to the rally.  The rally started at 2 PM. By 3.30 police successfully dispersed big parts of it from Tverskaya street and Pushkinskaya square at the very center of the city.

“Loveless,” Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film, has already won over the critics, winning the jury prize at Cannes, one of the top awards at the festival.

The Rise of Bitcoin: Why Russia thinks its future is crypto

This week on Moscow TV: Find out about Igor Stravinsky’s Hollywood life in the 1950s and Leningrad’s underground music scene in the 1980s, as well as the story of Russia’s “khrushchyovki” apartment blocks and the census of 1937.

World MMA champion Murad Amriev is forcefully detained and taken to Chechnya over the case of blood feud between Chechen officials and one of the members of his family, reports Russian news site Mediazona.

20 years ago Karelian activist Yuri Dmitriev discovered the mass grave of the victims of Stalin’s terror. And now, the executioner’s shadow hangs over him.