A video compilation of an explosion in 2023 and a fire in 2024, both in the Crimean peninsula, has been falsely described online as showing blasts in Russia’s capital Moscow in June 2025.

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago. It is the first such statue to be erected in central Moscow since Stalin’s death in 1953 and marks a disturbing new stage in Russia’s authoritarian path.

MOSCOW - Washington canceled the planned Russia-US meeting aimed at eliminating irritants in bilateral relations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Monday. "We hope that the pause they took will not be too long," Zakharova said.

A 73-year-old American jailed by Russia as a mercenary for Ukraine protested his innocence when his U.S.-based legal team and family finally tracked him down in April, months after he vanished into the vast Russian prison system,

Three years after the West wielded historic punitive measures, the Russian capital moves to a different rhythm — altered, adapted, but far from collapsed.

Roma “skated, dyed his hair, made tattoos, played loud music and, if necessary, he would fight for the freedom to do so,” wrote a war correspondent friend, Philip Mahlzan, in a bittersweet eulogy for United24 Media.

The increasingly powerful Russian Orthodox Church has built hundreds of new churches over the past decade. But some people in Moscow are pushing back against their construction, especially in places like city parks.

Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv, killing four and injuring dozens. President Zelenskyy condemned the violence and appealed for urgent air defense assistance.

The state argues that the defense has had plenty of time and resources to prepare for the upcoming trial scheduled for later this summer.

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s Russia-friendly leader made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Wednesday for a summit on strengthening European support for Kyiv’s fight against Russian aggression, but he refused to sign a joint declaration calling for tougher sanctions against Moscow.

EU member states, still reliant on Russian gas, oil, and nuclear fuel, have scrambled to prevent Brussels from banning energy imports, fueling Moscow’s