A powerful backlash has hit new laws due to be speeded through parliament on 'modernising' the country's science.
Now aged 71, Ted Kohner, son of Chaliapin's daughter Tatiana, is making his first visit from the US to the motherland of his iconic opera singer grandfather.
Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.
The Russian government is to give priority to Siberia and the Far East as it puts modernisation on fast-forward, insists Dmitry Medvedev.
First pictures of 'unique' Bronze Age warlord's full battle dress may be a 'war trophy'.
Putin fires top official in Russian Far East, and calls for Investigative Committee to check how authorities performing.
Monument to Kate Marsden unveiled in Sosnovka village 123 years after she set out on her epic work.
‘Taiga burning’ - as scared bears are driven out of their natural habitat towards settlements where they are shot as danger to people.
A deal would be the biggest Chinese equity participation in onshore oil in Russia.