Many Russian regions are under-reporting their death rates, the deputy prime minister said

Experts say there is no alarm, despite a high level of caesium at a Soviet-era submarine wreck.

U.S. president says he’s envious Russia doesn’t have a “fake news” problem, on first anniversary of Annapolis Capital-Gazette newsroom shooting that killed five.

Sasha Kazantseva runs a blog that's teaching Russian women to take back their bodies.

The study does not prove Russian interference swung the election to Trump. But it did find Trump's poll numbers improved when Russian trolls were active.

Although investment from Moscow soared in Crimea, prices are high, goods expensive, and tourists scarce.

Most of the time, an individual is not acting alone, but on the authority of an all-male ‘family council’

Russian scientists have found the furry head of an Ice Age wolf perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. The head of a wolf, which died 40,000 years ago, was discovered in the Russian Arctic region of Yakutia. Valery Plotnikov, a top researcher at the local branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the animal belonged to an ancient subspecies of wolf that lived at the same time as the mammoths and became extinct alongside them. Scientists said it was an adult, about 25% bigger than today’s wolves, but did not say whether it was male or female.

Ecologists long suspected the rugged mountains of Sailyugemsky National Park -- tucked into the Central Asian notch where Kazakhstan, Russia, China, and Mongolia meet -- were prime habitat for the beautiful, endangered snow leopard. But little was known about the numbers or habits of the elusive creatures. In 2010, American researcher Rodney Jackson of the Snow Leopard Conservancy donated 20 motion-activated camera traps to his Russian colleagues in hopes of learning more.

All the stages have been passed for President Putin to sign the controversial 'sovereign internet' bill into law. This is part of the Kremlin's wider aim to control internet access for Russians, which critics say is a form of censorship.

Fisherman in Norway raised alarm after white beluga whale sporting unusual strapping began harassing their boats

Here come more stories of Russia's interference in elections, Moscow's attempts to sow discord and Putin's conspiracy-theory spreading.

The special counsel pointed back to the words of his report. Here are its key findings.

Communists Of Russia, a Marxist-Leninist communist party, said Thursday that it has asked Russia’s broadcasting regulator, Roskomnadzor, to block local access.

Deripaska had Paul Manafort on his payroll for years.

An 18-year-old student ran through the technical college in Kerch firing at fellow pupils before killing himself, Russian investigators say. Officials and witnesses have also spoken of at least one blast caused by an unidentified explosive device.

Billions in illicit funds flowed through accounts held at Danske Bank’s branch in tiny Estonia. One employee dug into the details and tried to alert his superiors at headquarters. The resulting scandal cut the bank’s value in half, cost the CEO his job and prompted a new round of soul-searching.

How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s.

They haven’t stopped trying to influence our elections. Indeed, they may be busier than ever.

The first satellite launched into orbit, Sputnik, launched from a spaceport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Central Asian country was then a Soviet republic. Later, the first human to fly into space, Yuri Gagarin, also launched from Kazakhstan. Today, despite its independence, this spaceport remains the primary launch site for the Russian space program. However, when Kazakhstan wanted to get a small scientific satellite named KazSaySat and a technology satellite called KazistiSat into space...

Over 100 captured whales are being held in small, crowded enclosures in a so-called 'whale jail' off the coast of Russia, where they await suspected sale to Chinese theme parks, according to local media reports.

On November 15, the Net saw a clip of a 2017 Mario Kart 8 tournament released, in which Yasha Haddaji, CEO of Nintendo Russia, verbally abused his employees during the livestream. While gamers are busy signing the petition calling for Haddaji’s dismissal, we have talked to the company’s former workers about the incident and found out some telling details about the CEO and the inner workings of Nintendo’s Russian office in general.

Ukraine is set to declare martial law after saying six crew members were hurt in the naval incident.

Conspiracies surrounding NASA’s moon missions nearly 50 years ago are common in Russia.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Saturday that Russian operatives attempted to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, apparently confirming for the first time that Moscow attempted to meddle in last month's elections. Mattis spoke of the relationship between the Trump administration and Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.

Russia will establish a moon colony by 2040, the federal space agency announced. Moscow revealed a daring five year plan developed by its space agency Roscosmos which could see the former Cold War powers coming face to face on the Moon.

Butina becomes the first Russian national convicted of trying to sway U.S. policy in the run-up to the 2016 election.

A vast trading port in Ukraine lies mostly empty, after a sea-clash when Russia seized three boats.

A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target voters before and after the 2016 election.

In the wake of the 2016 election, Instagram — known as the home of preening influencers, artfully arranged grain bowls and Icelandic vacation photos — somehow escaped much of the scrutiny of other social networks. But two new reports suggest that may have been a mistake. The reports, conducted by independent groups and released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, concluded that Instagram — which is owned by Facebook — became a favored tool of Russian internet trolls after the 2016 election.

The US-based Google Corporation elected not to dispute the fine of 500,000 rubles ($7,300) imposed by the Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor for failure to comply with Russian laws on deletion of links to resources banned in Russia from search results, the company’s press service told TASS on Monday. "We can confirm that we decided not to dispute the fine; we will pay it," the company said.

The Russians do not like Robert Scales one bit, and that's not just in the halls of the Kremlin. According to the Moscow Times, Russian students participating in a charity-sponsored "air rifle shooting competition" in the country's Urals region were invited to take aim at a photo of the retired U.S. Army major general instead of the conventional rifle target.

“Zircon” would likely be unstoppable by today’s cutting edge air defenses.

Scientists from Russia and around the world see plasma rocket technology as a crucial possible ingredient for speedy missions to Mars and beyond. Physicists from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk are preparing another round of experiments aimed at successfully harnessing the power of thermonuclear plasma for use in a rocket engine, institute deputy director Alexander Ivanov has told journalists.

Rocketry is the forte of Dr K. Sivan, Chairman, ISRO, but this expertise has evidently rubbed off on his style of functioning as he drives his colleagues to launch three Indians into space eight months ahead of the schedule of August 2022 announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has knit up many teams to accomplish this high profile mission, (Gaganyaan), and one of these teams, has been working till the early hours every day to complete a review of the design of the crew module and systems by January 15. Excerpts: