Though this city - and country - has been blighted by economic sanctions, it is today Europe's richest metropolis.

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's largest conscription drive in 14 years. His ultimate goal is to have an army larger than America's, our Moscow correspondent explains. Follow the latest below ...

One year since the Moscow concert hall attack killed 145 people, Russian officials have asserted that it was planned and organized by “the special services of an unfriendly state.” MOSCOW ...

MOSCOW, March 24 (Reuters) - A former Russian deputy defence minister went on trial in Moscow on Monday in the first of a series of cases that signal a drive by President Vladimir Putin to punish ...