Everybody knows that you can only call it champagne if it comes from the French region of Champagne. Everyone except Vladimir Putin, that is.
All things considered, the trainer may have been fortunate to emerge with injuries that are not considered life-threatening.
Britain’s most expensive divorce settlement could be dwarfed by a new Russian in town – Natalia Potanina, the ex-wife of Vladimir Potanin, the “ice hockey buddy” of President Putin.
The space race is once again on between America and Russia, but this time it’s about who will get their film crews into space first.
This drone flight takes us through light sparks and smoke clouds from a fireworks display set off over St. Petersburg in Russia.
Fans of a reality TV show searching for the next big boy band loved the grumpiness of this Russian contestant so much that they ignored his pleas to be voted out.
After Putin claimed that the Black Sea palace didn’t belong to him or his family, one of his best friends stepped forward to say that he owns it. Not dodgy at all.
Mass protests have erupted across Russia after opposition leader Alexei Navalny was imprisoned, following which his team released a video about Putin’s luxury Black Sea palace.
In his annual press conference, Putin casually remarked that if he’d wanted opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, his agents would have finished the job.
A faulty electrical heater set off a series of events in a Russian city, that culminated in an impromptu fireworks display.
The investigation into the alleged murder of Vladimir Marugov has taken some bizarre twists and turns, with no sign of slowing down.
Russian oligarch Vladimir Marugov was killed in an outdoor sauna in a bizarre attack on Monday morning, and he isn’t the first.
The Russian Lun-class ekranoplan, or “The Caspian Sea Monster”, as it has been dubbed, has just emerged for the first time in 30 years.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny collapsed on a flight in August, and was found to have been taken down by a poison developed by Soviet scientists during the Cold War.
Russia recently declassified 40 minutes of unseen footage of the largest man-made explosion in the world.
Ivan Zaborovsky may only be 16, but he already has quite a story to tell.
If you’re a female tennis player of Russian descent, with blonde hair, comparisons with Maria Sharapova are always likely. According to those in the know, Amanda Anisimova is the real deal.
Doctors who have spoken out against the unsafe conditions in Russia’s hospitals seem to have a habit of ‘falling out’ of windows.
The first footage of the polar bear appeared on a Russian Instagram account two days ago, and shows the bear with ‘T-34’ emblazoned across its back.
Audiences at a circus performance were horrified when a Russian bear viciously turned on its handler.
If you put aside his penchant for murdering dissidents and ruling with an iron first, your man Vlad is just like the rest of us.
On Sunday, Russian boxer Shavkat Rakhimov defeated South Africa’s Azinga Fuzile in an IBF world junior lightweight showdown in East London, but that’s where the story really heats up.
Russian football journalist Evgeny Evnevich wasn’t about to let something as silly as a sprinkler get in the way of a live report.
The Khachaturyan sisters stabbed their father to death while he slept in July of last year, but many around the world are calling for their charges to be dropped.
Russian soldiers were handling artillery powder charges when things went unexpectedly, and very horribly, wrong.
A Russian influencer was found murdered, with her body inside a suitcase in her apartment, just days before her 25th birthday.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are currently the best of buds, and you just know that’s going to irk America’s president.
People like to argue that the largest release of nuclear fallout in the history of humanity, Chernobyl, can’t happen again. Don’t be too sure of it.
Every year, Vlad takes part in an exhibition ice hockey match, banging in goals and enjoying the attention. His lap of honour didn’t go as planned, though.
Nobody has claimed the harness-wearing whale found off the coast of Norway, but one man thinks he might be able to shed more light on the mystery.