A former KGB agent recently claimed that many Soviet celebrities, including multiple famous actors, were agents of the “special services."

Military reenactors mark the 76th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad with plenty of pyrotechnics.

Russia has everything, including Amazonians.

They could not have been more different, but both these Vladimirs had a huge impact on Russian history.

Ivan the Terrible, notorious not only for being terrible, but also for killing his eldest son, may have finally found his heir.

170 years ago this week, January 15, 1850, the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

245 years ago this week, on January 10, 1775, the rebel Yemelyan Pugachev was executed in Moscow.

The first months of 1920 was a dark time in Russia. The Civil War was grinding to its grim conclusion and intellectuals were in the crosshairs.

The first earthling to perish in space was the Soviet space dog Laika. Soon thereafter, the first earthlings to orbit the planet – 60 years ago this summer – were Belka and Strelka.

Vsevolod Ivanov’s books have long since been largely forgotten, and today it is hard to decide whether or not his current obscurity is deserved.

From the diaries of the US Minister to Russia, George Washington Campbell, 200 years ago.

The All-Russia People’s Front, an organization founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin, apparently counts teenagers as part of all Russian people.