Russia

The cinema that turned into a church

Pro-Kremlin election observer rants about “merry-go-round” fraud

"Gazprom, get your phallus out of St Petersburg"

Moscow council is corrupt and xenophobic... they said so themselves

The death of the Aral Sea

Putin's not a fan of punk rock

Insurers avoid me like the plague

Russia to launch nationwide citizens militia

Twitter under cyber attack, Russia suspected

Why they're chanting “Death to Russia!” in Tehran

“Punk’s not dead, it’s just under police surveillance”

Some Russians haven’t heard about the crisis

Even trains stop when Medvedev arrives

Chechens rally through Moscow centre

When the SWAT turn up at your neighbour’s

Russian football hooligans - worse than the English?

Over 9,000km on horseback to get to the Beijing Olympics… seven months too late

Far from the same old opposition protest

Georgia doesn’t want to 'put in' at the Eurovision in Moscow

Caught jumping the lights? Nothing a bit of cash can't sort out...

The world's deadliest job: defending human rights in Russia

The (extremely kitsch) Gazprom anthem

The plight of Moscow's stray dogs

Stalin is a national treasure according to modern Russians