For most expats in Moscow, Wednesday was the last working day before settling down or jetting off for Christmas and also a good time to have a drink and look back on the year that was.

Beneficiary of the Cathedral of the Ascension of Satino-Russkoe village in Moscow region archpriest Aleksandr Filippov was shot dead on Tuesday evening in the doorway of his apartment building.

"Sleeping with the leader does not mean having the exclusive right to him."This may sound like a line from a soap opera, but in fact, these were the words of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. But who where they addressed to?

After the recent snowfalls in Moscow, authorities have returned to the idea of cleaning the sky of the capital by bombing the clouds.

Eight Indian tigers and an African lioness have died while being carried by a truck to a circus in Yakutsk, East Siberia. Police said the animals were poisoned by the vehicle

During a preliminary hearing, former Police Major Denis Yevsyukov, who went on a shooting spree in a Moscow supermarket, has asked the court to hold a hearing without a jury.

The memorial to WWII veterans that was demolished in the Georgian city of Kutaisi earlier this month will be rebuilt in Moscow, Russia

Jamaican-born bass-baritone Sir Willard White will become Mariinsky

An attempt to solve Iran

President Medvedev has revealed a list of people chosen as next-generation high-level officials at national and regional levels.