An icon depicting Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has appeared in a church of Leningrad district's city of Strelnya, Novaya Gazeta reported Wednesday.

Russian Orthodox representatives think new people’s patrols consisting of believers should be organized to help the police in maintaining order in the streets.

Today the People’s Artist of the USSR, illustrious film actor and director Aleksey Batalov celebrates his 80th jubilee.

Russian international football forward Andrei Arshavin who currently plays for St. Petersburg's Zenit is the fifth most popular player in number of internet references.

Friday Chita's Ingodinsky court ruled illegal Khodorkovky's dungeon restraint.

The merited film and theatre actor Sergei Bekhterev has died, aged 50, following a serious long disease, in Saint Petersburg.

Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood has reportedly offered his estranged wife $4.9 million (£3 million) a year in a lucrative divorce deal.

Joseph Alliluyev, the son of Joseph Stalin’s daughter Svetlana and her first husband Grigory Morozov, has died in Moscow.