The violence stems from deep animus between two aggressive camps with starkly different visions of Russia’s future — neo-Nazi skinheads who rank in the tens of thousands and militant anti-racist groups that call themselves Antifa, short for...

Along with the perennial calls for “land for farmers” and “factories for workers,” Communists who marched in Moscow on the Saturday anniversary of the 1917 revolution offered a slogan of more recent vintage: “Russia without Putin.”

Russia has put defences on alert along its border with North Korea amid tensions over possible new missile tests by the secretive Communist regime. The Kremlin ordered troops to deploy Russia’s most advanced missile defence system, the S-400, to...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday called time on the country’s vodka tipplers, saying alcoholism had become a “national disaster”. Medvedev said measures aimed at reducing binge drinking had not reduced alcoholism in...

On his first postwar visit to Abkhazia, one of the separatist territories at the center of last year’s war with Georgia, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin pledged at least 15 billion rubles, or about $470 million, to build a Russian military base and...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Tuesday that Russia and China gradually switch over to national currency payments in bilateral trade, expected to total $50 billion in 2008.

Mankind has always been driven by contradictory drives. The relentless curiosity that pushes us forward and is directly responsible for our progress from caves to cities.

I cannot stop cheating on my current girlfriend with my ex. I don’t even want to do it, sneaking around is a pain in the butt, and the sex with my girl is better anyway. Plus I do love her and I don’t want to hurt her. But when my ex calls I can’t...

Deputies of Russia’s Nizhni Novgorod region intend to liquidate several settlements in the region, including the village of California.