President Vladimir Putin stated Monday that Kyiv's attack into southwestern Russia's Kursk area will not halt Moscow's advance in eastern Ukraine and promised to deal with what he called Ukrainian bandits on Russian territory.Ukraine's surprise attack into the Kursk region on Aug. 6 has so far displaced around 130,000 people, with Kyiv's

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A small village in a national park in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region is boycotting the upcoming regional elections where the pro-Kremlin incumbent governor seeks to secure his mandate because they have been cut off from the outside world by authorities’ negligence.

The village of Tyulyuk, some 1,700 kilometers from Moscow, is located in a region

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Russia’s manufacturing sector saw its slowest pace of growth in more than a year in August, a business surveypublished on Monday showed.

S-P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for Russian manufacturing fell to 52.1 last month compared to 53.6 in July. A PMI value above 50 points indicates growth, whereas anything below signifies a dec

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A Beluga whale whose unusual harness sparked suspicions it was trained by Russia for spying purposes has been found dead in Norway, according to an NGO that tracks the animal's movements.

Nicknamed "Hvaldimir," a pun on the Norwegian word for whale hval and the Russian name Vladimir, the beluga first appeared off the coast of Norway's far-northern

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A big fire at an oil storage facility in southern Russia's Rostov area has been snuffed out 2 weeks after a Ukrainian drone strike set it off, Russian state media reported Monday, mentioning emergency situation services.Ukraine's military claimed obligation for the Aug. 18 attack on the Kavkaz oil and petroleum storage center in the town of

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Rescuers on Sunday said they found 17 bodies after a helicopter with 22 people on board crashed in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula in the Far East.

The helicopter went missing shortly after takeoff Saturday, carrying 19 tourists and 3 crew members, according to authorities in Kamchatka, a picturesque region popular among adventure tourists and known f

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