The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

Once prized fighters under the Tsars, Russia’s Cossack population was ostracised by authorities during the Soviet era. Under ...

Russian anti-Kremlin feminist punk band and art collective 'Pussy Riot' was designated an extremist organisation by a Moscow ...

A Moscow court on Dec. 15 designated feminist protest group Pussy Riot as an "extremist organization," banning its activities ...

A Moscow court has today ruled the feminist punk protest collective Pussy Riot to be an “extremist organisation”. The ...

Decision follows a court judgment that saw five members of the group sentenced in absentia to up to 13 years in jail ...

Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of ...

Born in Tokyo to a Japanese actress and a Japanese American U.S. Army soldier, he moved to the United States as a child and ...

MANILA, Philippines — A Russian Orthodox Church opened in Bohol on November 23. The Russian Orthodox Church of the icon of the Mother of God “Quick to Hear” was opened on Panglao Island in Bohol. It ...

(RNS) — A delegation of Orthodox Christian clergy and lobbyists met with Trump administration officials and members of Congress this week, igniting feuds among both U.S. Orthodox Christian and ...