Unearthed archival documents show that Vladimir Putin investigated a dissident artist as a junior KGB agent in Leningrad.

Russia's second-largest city has announced that COVID restrictions will stay in place until the end of October.

Moscow and St. Petersburg will see new shops filled with international goods where only top officials and their families can shop.

A St. Petersburg priest faces up to ten years in prison for speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

Ksenia Sorokina gives her Golden Mask award to jailed anti-war activist Sasha Skochilenko.

The life of a street musician is not an easy one. But it is one thing to busk with a guitar or pan flute, quite another to have to set up a complex vertical xylophone made of bottles.

Putin pays his respects at a memorial cemetery - by locking out the survivors and setting up snipers.

Sellers of souvenirs? They’re missing you, folks! But perhaps not that much.

A St. Petersburg artist draws attention to the city's ice and snow problem.

August 27, 1698, was a day of historic importance for the grooming of the Russian male. It was then that Tsar Peter I (known to history as “the Great”), armed himself with scissors and undertook to mercilessly clip beards from the faces of summoned noblemen and boyars.

In this week's Odder News, next year will be better, St. Petersburg's mayor should move to Africa, and bunkers are hip.

King's Cross station has nothing on the city of St. Petersburg, which is now complete with its own Platform 9 3/4, too.