Rasputin rose from an illiterate Russian peasant to one of the most powerful men in the Romanov Empire, and he did it by means that still stump historians today. Loved by an ardent, powerful few and ...

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...

Few figure skaters at the Winter Olympics have seen Adeliia Petrosian compete in real life. She might leave with the gold medal. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. As she readies to skate ...

Russia on Thursday confirmed that it had blocked WhatsApp in the country. The Kremlin said citizens can use a state-backed messenging service instead. WhatsApp issued a statement saying Russia had ...

Russia’s status at the Olympics in recent years has been complicated, to say the least. Following the revelation that numerous athletes were involved in a state-sponsored doping scheme, in 2018 in ...

KYIV — Days after negotiations to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine ended inconclusively in Abu Dhabi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia and the United States were discussing ...

A top Russian military intelligence general was shot in a Moscow apartment building Friday and hospitalized, the Kremlin said, depicting it as an assassination attempt orchestrated by Ukraine. There ...

A Russian general serving as deputy head of Russian military intelligence has regained consciousness after being shot and seriously wounded in Moscow, according to state news agency TASS, citing ...

Petr Gumennik performs in the men's free skating during the ISU Skate to Milano Figure Skating Qualifier in Bejing; Adeliia Petrosian competes during the women's free skating event of the 2026 Russian ...

When the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off in Milan Cortina in February, Russia will once again be on the outside looking in. Long considered a formidable powerhouse for figure skating, ice hockey and ...

A Russian general has been killed in a car bombing in Moscow, with officials pointing the finger at Ukraine for the latest apparent assassination of a senior military officer. Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, ...

When you think of things that are quintessentially Russian, you might think of those painted wooden nesting dolls stacked one inside another. NPR's John Ruwitch visited the place where most of the ...