The government’s official image and the reality of Russian society could not be further apart. According to a popular legend, in 1787, the Russian general Grigory Potemkin built elaborate but fake ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian forces have taken control of the first village in the east-central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, Russian state media and war bloggers said on Monday, after Russia took ...

Russian forces have reportedly seized their first village in Ukraine's east-central Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Russian state media and war bloggers, marking a new advance in the ongoing ...

The animals came to the village in search of food, conservationists said. LONDON and MOSCOW -- More than 50 polar bears have descended on a Russian village looking for food, conservationists said. In ...