Russian President Vladimir Putin is to switch from car to helicopter for short hops from the Kremlin, his spokesman said Thursday, delighting drivers ...

If war were to break out, the presumed influx of refugees into Russia could create a humanitarian crisis and a burdensome price tag for the Kremlin -- just as it would for China. Russia is similarly vulnerable to any radiation that may blow from the peninsula on to Russian territory.

LONDON — Boris Berezovsky, a self-exiled and outspoken Russian tycoon who had a bitter falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was fo...

An impassioned letter by a blind Russian teen has taken the world by storm and caused even the Kremlin to take notice. High school student Natasha ...

MOSCOW -- Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest Russia's new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a far big...

MOSCOW — A Russian teenage orphan who uses an American family's name on Facebook has become the unlikely poster boy of a Kremlin campaign to sto...

MOSCOW -- Russian investigators on Friday accused a prominent opposition leader of fraud and money-laundering, intensifying legal pressure on the anti...

Putin is a victim of his own economic success. Prosperity and stability in the past decade helped create the new urban middle class, which now wants political change to match its economic achievements.

MOSCOW — What ails Vladimir Putin? The Russian leader whose image of physical vigor is key to his success has canceled several foreign trips in...

By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW, Oct 20 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin took a leading role in the latest tests of Russia's strategic n...

Since Vladimir V. Putin's return to the Kremlin, the Russian parliament has rammed through a raft of laws tightening the screws on civil society, the government kicked out USAID, and opposition demonstrators are facing unwarranted criminal charges.

MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Billionaire Kremlin critic Alexander Lebedev was charged on Wednesday with "hooliganism" over a televise...

There is a danger that the image of Russia's institutions as being frozen in an archaic and despotic past could obscure the reality of a changing society that is much more diverse than we imagine.

Russia's new NGO law is more than a move against organizations receiving foreign funding. It is part of a broader campaign to squeeze out those the Kremlin sees as peddlers of "soft power."

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill Wednesday that would change how the upper house of the Russian parliament is formed, a move h...

MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in a brief but regal Kremlin ceremony on Monday, while on the streets outside thousands of helme...

MOSCOW — A demonstration by at least 20,000 people on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president turned into a battle with police Sun...

In the heat of vetoing a UN resolution on Syria, bracing against anti-Putin protests, and dealing with news that a Russian submarine carrying nuclear ...

MOSCOW — Election officials have refused so far to allow the leader of Russia's leading liberal party to compete in March's presidential electio...

MOSCOW -- Police detained 60 opposition activists on Saturday to prevent them from protesting on a central Moscow square against the Kremlin's stiflin...

Although small rallies and pickets persist, nobody is talking much anymore about the rigged elections that threw a bucket of ice water onto Russia's lethargic electorate at the beginning of December.