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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.

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.