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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.

For those who don’t want to sit in a dark cinema, the summer doesn’t mean taking a break from films. Moscow has plenty of open-air cinemas showing new releases, festival hits and classics. Here’s our pick of the best.

For those who don’t want to sit in a dark cinema, the summer doesn’t mean taking a break from films. Moscow has plenty of open-air cinemas showing new releases, festival hits and classics. Here’s our pick of the best.

Compared to most librarians, the last 19 months have been unusually dramatic for Natalya Sharina.

Authorities may soon struggle to quell protests against a controversial housing demolition program in Moscow

An exhibition at Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art shows the heavy influence of colonialism on the art of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and illuminates the struggle for control over the representation of its culture.

If you happened to find yourself in the State Duma on Tuesday, June 6, you might be forgiven for thinking Russia had finally found something more popular than President Vladimir Putin.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said there are no plans to halt visa processing from Europe.

From art films to brisket to go: all the most exciting openings in Moscow

Vladimir Putin danced circles around U.S. television host Megyn Kelly on June 5, deflecting her questions on Russia’s meddling in U.S. presidential election. But he did not deny it.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow 215 years ago today, on June 6, 1799.

A retired colonel was hospitalised in Saint Petersburg after becoming dangerously intoxicated.

VKontakte revises terms of service to allow for political campaigns

A chilly start to the Russian summer could trigger rising inflation rates in the second half of 2017, according to Russia’s Central Bank.

Born in Reading, just outside of London, Kate Fowle has already worked in several countries before finding her place as the chief curator at the garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

Born in Reading, just outside of London, Kate Fowle has already worked in several countries before finding her place as the chief curator at the garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

Russia could dedicate a new parliamentary commission to stop Western nations from influencing the country’s 2018 presidential elections.

FSB Raids for Scientologist Headquarters in Saint Petersburg

Russian cheese comes of age at this new restaurant near Trubnaya.

Nine people were shot and killed in Russia’s Tver region on the night of June 4 following a drunken argument at a party. The suspected shooter is 45-year old Sergei Yegorov, a part-time electrician.

The former director of Moscow’s State Library of Ukrainian Literature has been given a four-year suspended sentence for distributing extremist materials and embezzlement.

Russian opposition-leaning magazine The New Times announced Sunday it will close its print edition due to financial problems.

It’s “strange bedfellows week” on Moscow television, as the small screen offers its audience great literature (live!), regrettable war criminals (dead!) and a Russian rock star whose early work during perestroika will impress.