Tom Balmforth covers Russia and other former Soviet republics from his base in Moscow.
It's been more than a month since truckers set up a small encampment on the outskirts of Moscow, going national in their protest over a new road tax they say will hammer their livelihood. These drivers are in it for the long haul, spending the New Year and Orthodox Christmas in an Ikea parking lot that has become a home away from home.
Sergei Aksyonov, the head of Russian-controlled Crimea, invoked Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in a profane, televised tirade against underlings he said had failed to carry out his orders to restore power amid electricity outages on the Black Sea peninsula.
The Ukrainian president's "joke" magazine cover takes aim at Putin, elicits Russian mockery.
Russians from different walks of life describe how they've been affected by the country's economic woes, and talk about their hopes and fears for 2016.
Abdusami says he was tricked into traveling to Syria to join Islamic State (IS) militants, but escaped to Moscow -- and now lives in fear of arrest in Russia, deportation to his native Tajikistan, or retribution at the hands of the men he claims lured him to the Middle East.
Eccentric Russian political figure and world chess mogul Kirsan Ilyumzhinov says he plans to sue the U.S. Treasury for $50 billion after Washington hit him with sanctions -- and then use the money to finance a democracy promotion outfit in the United States.
A prominent Russian official has some bad news about bad news: It can kill you.
A wave of protests by disgruntled long-haul truckers is a rare example of anti-Kremlin sentiment stirring within President Vladimir Putin's working-class support base.
When a top Russian tourism official said that beach and sea vacations were a foreign idea, it triggered a tsunami of anger -- especially when the same official was found to have owned property on a tropical Indian Ocean island.
Tens of thousands of Turkish nationals who built lives in Russia amid a construction boom might become casualties of Moscow's response to the downing of a Russian bomber by Ankara.
With a key UN conference on climate change starting in Paris, RFE/RL takes a closer look at the huge environmental challenges facing Russia in the coming decades.
Vladimir Putin said there would be "serious consequences" after Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane on November 24.
Russia's colorful Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has weathered several scandals in a career at the top of President Vladimir Putin's sports bureaucracy, but allegations of widespread doping in athletics could be the toughest challenge he's faced.
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky has been arrested after setting fire to the front door of the Federal Security Services (FSB) headquarters.
Oleg Kashin has an open invitation to meet with the Russian governor he accuses of ordering the beating that left him clinging to life. Strangely enough, Kashin has declined the offer.
Here are some of the scenarios that Russian and other media are exploring in the wake of Russia's worst-ever air disaster.
Following a raid in which scores of "extremist" books were seized, Russian investigators have announced that the head of the Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow has been arrested on suspicion of "inciting ethnic hatred."
Lanfranco Cirillo may be Russia's most enigmatic Italian, a mystery man nicknamed "Putin's Architect" for his work on a palatial mansion built in utmost secrecy, purportedly for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A Hungarian TV camerawoman who was widely condemned in September for kicking refugees has said she is considering moving to Russia.
Even before the Dutch Safety Board presented its findings about last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over the war zone in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s media machine went into overdrive to present a strikingly different picture to the Russian people and the world.
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