Radical Islamists have claimed responsibility for the murder of an Orthodox priest in Moscow last month via an extremist website. Father Daniil Sysoyev was shot dead in his church on November 20.

The only internet provider in Turkmenistan has reportedly blocked access to a number of popular websites, including YouTube and LiveJournal.

Figure skater Evgeny Pluschenko, who will be defending his Olympic title in Vancouver, has just broken his own points world record at the Russian Championships in Saint Petersburg.

An experiment with locusts showed that in their on-ground locomotion they rely on sight, which was previously believed to be too complex a task for insects.

Over the 80 years of its turbulent maritime life, the Kruzenshtern barque has been on scientific and military tours, as well as used as a training vessel

December 25: another day of high expectations and lost hopes. Historama takes a look.

The results of the EU investigation into the war in 2008 were not favorable for Georgia, and the demolition of the Kutaisi monument is a kind of psychological vengeance for them, believes observer Ekaterina Kuznetsova.

A residence for Santa Claus and his Russian brother Father Frost has been built in Moscow. It will certainly satisfy all the needs of the important visitors to the Russian capital.

Moscow is as well known for high hotel prices as it is for nightlife and traffic jams

Medvedev understands that we need the middle class, we need civil society, we need entrepreneurs in order to turn the country around, says Andrey Kortunov, political analyst from the New Eurasia Foundation.