Russian Muslims are celebrating on Tuesday Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, which is known as Kurban Bairam by Russian and Central Asian Muslims.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), Medvedev’s spokeswoman said Frida

Nearly a quarter of a million museum pieces from collections across Russia are missing and unaccounted for, the Ministry of Culture has determined after a comprehensive but unpublicized three-year inspection. AOL News has learned that a consultant to...

Police sealed off a central Moscow square and skirmished with anti-Kremlin activists Tuesday evening, detaining at least three Russian opposition leaders and dozens of followers who were part of a defiant, surging crowd that included observers from the...

Romania’s Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday evening the expulsion of a Russian diplomat in Bucharest. According to a press release of the ministry, the Romanian authorities on Tuesday informed the Russian side of the decision to declare...

A deep layer of smog from wildfires around Moscow hung over the Russian capital Saturday, prompting many city residents to wear masks and causing dozens of flight delays and diversions at the city’s airports. The thick haze affected Moscow for a...

Wearing sanitary masks or clutching wet rags to their faces, Moscow residents struggled Saturday against the worst smog in living memory which has enveloped the Russian capital from spreading wildfires. The concentration of toxic particles was up to...

Three members of a criminal group behind the March 29 terrorist attacks on the Moscow metro have been killed, Federal Security Service chief Alexander Bortnikov said on Thursday. The three killed were members of a “criminal group, which included...

Thousands of snow-clearing machines have been working to dig the Russian capital Moscow out of a record-breaking fall of 63cm (nearly 25 inches). After a weekend of heavy snow showers, the regional weather centre announced that the previous record of...

An enormous television screen showing a pornographic film caused a midnight traffic jam in central Moscow Thursday as stunned motorists slammed on the brakes to gawk at the writhing naked bodies.