An American weekly news magazine Time has included Russian punk band Pussy Riot in the list of candidates for the 2012 Person of the Year.

Boris Strugatsky, the Soviet and Russian legendary science fiction writer, the last remaining member of the Strugatsky brothers duo, died on Monday.

A woman with white wings and a halo has been spotted on the busiest streets of Russia’s Kaliningrad region to warn drivers against speeding.

On Tuesday, a district court in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk paroled a Russian physicist Valentin Danilov who was imprisoned in 2004 for spying for China.

Colombian songstress and world music star Shakira has launched her personal account on one of Russia’s most popular social networks, “VKontakte”.

The popular Russian actor and TV host Ilya Oleynikov has died, aged 65; it is another big loss for Russian culture.

A Moscow lawyer shot five of his colleagues, targeting those he deemed responsible for the recent end of a romantic relationship.

The head of the Production center of "Lenfilm" Andrey Sigle was dismissed from his post without any explanation.