In the early weeks of the war, prison authorities told top guards there would be no restrictions against violence.

Explosions were reported on board an oil tanker believed to be used by Russia's "shadow fleet," docked in Ust-Luga in northwest Russia, near President Vladimir Putin's home city of St. Petersburg. The ...

Venus glowed brightly on a clear night sky over Saint Petersburg, Russia. Footage shows the heavenly body shining above the ...

Vladimir Putin is poised to move thousands of tons of military equipment through the English Channel on its way to Russia. A ...

A Russian musician who repeatedly condemned Russia's war on Ukraine mysteriously "fell" out of a window, marking the latest ...

Update 29-year-old Ivan Zabavsky has managed to pass on a note in which he spoke of the torture he has endured during the ten ...

The tallest skyscraper in Europe is also likely the coldest. The Lakhta Centre, 12km from the centre of St Petersburg, stands ...

Russia has continued to transport the commodity via an aging fleet whose links to Moscow are hidden, often through shell companies. The EU has been struggling to clamp down on the Russian vessels, ...

We skated together. We grew up in Saint Petersburg and we skated on the same ice,” said Marina Eltsova, of Leawood. “It’s ...

(AP Photo, File) Men fish on melting ice not far from shore on the Gulf of Finland in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Jan.

British-educated Russian musician Vadim Stroykin, 58, fell to his death from a 10th floor window after police raided his ...

A well-known Russian musician has become the latest critic of Vladimir Putin to commit suicide by falling from a window after ...