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As permafrost collapses, people turn to mammoth-tusk hunting and migration.

Popkov, one of Russia's deadliest serial killers and nicknamed the "maniac of Angarsk," killed his victims with axes, knives or screwdrivers, police said.

The surge in bookings has also raised questions over how to commemorate a disaster that killed thousands.

Fourteen Russia-backed YouTube channels spreading disinformation have been generating billions of views and millions of dollars in advertising revenue, according to researchers, and had not been labeled as state-sponsored, contrary to the world's most popular streaming service's...

Soviet forces seized the four islands at the end of World War II and Moscow and Tokyo both claim sovereignty over them.

The pandemic has only accelerated the struggles in regions far from Moscow.

It could be evidence of a new globe-spanning missile.

The missile, which was carrying nuclear materials, killed five workers when it blew up last week.

A horror-movie-themed website told readers to ‘hunt’ gay people. Then an activist was stabbed to death.

Russian television hosts mocked the military equipment that will appear at the “Salute for America” on Thursday, saying that the tanks and other armored vehicles had “paint peeling off” and required “adhesive tape.”

This is not the diary I wanted to write. Though it includes snippets of the research I wanted to share, it is not what I had been working on for the past few days, obviously. I am rushing this diary through as I had most of the research already and...

Once unthinkable, guided tours of Pripyat — once a closed Soviet city for Chernobyl workers — and a former missile base are in growing demand.

Russian has the islands. Japan claims them. And suddenly there is speculation that Putin could give them back.

Russia has said the new missile system is highly maneuverable, allowing it to easily evade missile defense systems.

An official designation of Alexei Navalny’s group as a “foreign agent” is likely to hobble it.

The site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history is still radioactive.