Timbered warehouses, the buildings constructed in medieval times, are being dismantled in Zheleznodorozhny township of Kaliningrad Oblast.

People drink less alcohol in Russia from 2009 to 2013, but alcohol still kills about 75 thousand people a year.

A half of all search queries in “Yandex” in early March related to the situation in Ukraine, the spokesman of the press-service of the search engine said.

On Friday, March 14, Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy blocked access to a blog written for its website by famous opposition activist Alexey Navalny on orders from Russian prosecutors

Russian parliament is considering legislation to force bloggers whose webpages get 10,000 views a day to get official journalist accreditation from the government, Russian press reports.

Several major Russian government websites were blocked by a series of coordinted cyber attacks by hackers this week, officials told the press.

The editor-in-chief of the popular Russian news website Lenta.ru was relieved of her post on Wednesday, followed by 39 members of the editorial staff who signed their discharge applications in solidarity with their chief.

The LiveJournal blog of an opposition leader Alexey Navalny and several other independent websites have been included to the Russian Internet blacklist, Russia's telecoms watchdog said on Thursday.

If the “revolutionary chaos” in Ukraine continues, hundreds of thousands of refugees will flood into the border regions of Russia.

A biggest provider of Internet services in Russia's southern Siberian Republic of Altai has blocked access to the most popular video-sharing website YouTube for several controversial videos.