Eight passengers were injured while evacuating a Boeing 737 aircraft in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after midnight on July 19. As the Yerevan-bound NordWind f...
No, FaceApp isn’t taking photos of your face and taking them back to Russia for some nefarious project. At least that’s what current evidence suggests....
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MOSCOW — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has recently denied visas for teachers at a school in Moscow run by Western embassies, in what American officials suggested w...
An employee of Sheremetyevo Airport was on his way to work through the forest park zone, when he was attacked by unknown persons and stripped of his clothes. 31...
Russian officials have updated to 24 the death toll from flooding in the southern Siberian region of Irkutsk. Emergency officials in Irkutsk were quoted as sayi...
Moscow -- The U.S. Embassy in Moscow says the condition of an American man held on spying charges in Russia has worsened. The Embassy said on Twitter Monday tha...
Hundreds of workers at a major oil and gas project in western Kazakhstan have taken part in a protest over working conditions, and local officials said at least...
Two people have died in Siberia during floods caused by heavy rains, local authorities say. The Irkutsk regional government said on June 28 that a couple died o...
British travellers on no-visa trips to Russia who lose a passport will unwittingly become entangled in an an expensive race against time to put things right. A ...
TBILISI -- Thousands of protesters rallied in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for the sixth consecutive day, demanding the resignation of the interior minister. ...
Organizers in the Georgian capital balked at kicking off six days of Tbilisi Pride events on June 18 after a triple wallop from the Georgian Orthodox Church, an...
MOSCOW — The arrest of a respected investigative journalist on dubious drug charges has hit a nerve in Russia, spurring growing protests on Monday and statement...
The initial train with 91 passengers aboard left St. Petersburg on June 5 for an 11-day "test journey," passing through Petrozavodsk, the historic town of Kem, ...
Yandex, Russia's largest search engine, has refused to turn over encryption keys that would give the country's law enforcement the ability to decode its entire ...
MOSCOW -- Popular dating app Tinder is being required to share personal information about Russian users with the country's security services as the Kremlin cont...
Arsenal fans wearing Henrikh Mkhitaryan shirts have been filmed being stopped by Azerbaijan police in Baku ahead of the Europa League final. Supporters have als...
A knife-wielding man has attacked staffers of the Russian Communist Party newspaper in the southern city of Stavropol, leaving an editor hospitalized and woundi...
Bride kidnapping remains a persistent problem in Kyrgyzstan and the authorities' failure to punish violence against women and girls is leaving them at risk of b...
OSH, Kyrgyzstan -- An RFE/RL's correspondent has been attacked in Kyrgyzstan's southern city of Osh while preparing an investigative report about the suspicious...
Aeroflot has canceled or delayed more than a half-dozen flights that used the Sukhoi Superjet, days after 41 people were killed in a crash-landing at a Moscow a...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Seven Russian tourists on a hiking holiday in Siberia are feared dead after an avalanche on a ridge in the Altai region, the local emergencie...
The Mongolian couple contracted the illness after eating the raw meat of a marmot, a type of rodent. Following their deaths, a six-day quarantine was declared o...
