Two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics, Yevgenia Kanaeva, has announced her wedding with Russian hockey player Igor Musatov.

A spiritual leader of Dagestan Muslims, Sheikh Said Afandi, and five other people were killed in a blast carried out by a female suicide bomber in Dagestan.

The People’s Artist of the USSR, the full member of the Russian Academy of Arts Gely Korzhev has died in Moscow, aged 87.

Maria Sharapova is now officially a "sweetie", as the Russian tennis queen has presented her own premium candy line, called Sugarpova.

Russian chess grandmaster and opposition activist Garry Kasparov can follow Pussy Riot to prison over a clash with police near the Khamovnichesky court on Friday.

Russian physicist, academician and popular science TV show host Sergei Kapitsa died on Tuesday in Moscow at age 84.

A Siberian traveller, Konstantin Zhuravlyov, has hitchhiked around the world, visiting 37 countries in 777 days.

A prominent theatre and film director, art director of the Moscow theatre P. Fomenko Studio, Pyotr Fomenko has died on the 81st year of his life.

Having stunned her Kyiv fans with Russian foul language, Madonna finally arrived to Moscow where she's opened a fitness club, supported Pussy Riot, and is about to give a concert tonight.

People's Artist of Russia, Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army's actor, Fyodor Chekhankov, died on Wednesday in Moscow, on the 73rd year of his life.