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HELLO KITTY AND PIKACHU RECRUITED TO BACK OSAKA'S BID TO HOST THE 2025 WORLD EXPO
Hello Kitty and Pikachu have been enlisted to give Osaka a boost in its efforts to host the 2025 World Exposition... READ MORE›
FIREBALL LIGHTS UP ARCTIC SKY
Amateur astronomers in the Arctic then saw about 1,000 meteors, 40 meteorites and one fireball in just one night... READ MORE›
ARCTIC FINLAND: BLAZING FIREBALL LIGHTS UP ARCTIC SKY
Amateur astronomers in the Arctic then saw about 1,000 meteors, 40 meteorites and one fireball in just one night... READ MORE›
NO CHINA OR US IN WORLD CUP - BUT THEIR 'FANS' ARE BOOKING OUT MOSCOW
The 2018 World Cup will take place between June 14 and July 15 across 11 Russian cities: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Volgograd, Rostov-On-Don, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg and Saransk... READ MORE›
U.S. HIRES COMPANY WITH K.G.B. LINK TO GUARD MOSCOW EMBASSY
Elite Security, reached by telephone in Moscow, declined to comment on the role in the company of Mr. Budanov and his son... READ MORE›
PUTIN'S FORMER KGB BOSS HEADS SECURITY FOR US EMBASSIES IN RUSSIA
Viktor Budanov was a longtime KGB agent he headed KGB counterintelligence the KGB branch in East Germany in the late 1980s... READ MORE›
'MATILDA' FILM ON LAST CZAR'S AFFAIR, SPARKS CONTROVERSY IN RUSSIA
Putin's push for national pride and increasing support for the Orthodox Church helped stoke opposition to the film... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 260 ARRESTS IN ANTI-PUTIN PROTESTS ACROSS RUSSIA
More than 260 people have been detained across Russia as jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny's supporters staged protest rallies on Vladimir Putin's 65th birthday... READ MORE›
A RUSSIAN LOVE STORY ABOUT NICHOLAS II AND A BALLERINA LEADS TO DEATH THREATS
Nicholas and his immediate family, who were murdered by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg in 1918, are saints, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000... READ MORE›
JAPAN SUBMITS OSAKA'S BID TO HOST 2025 WORLD EXPO
Osaka's rivals are Paris, the Azerbaijani capital of Baku and the western Russia city of Yekaterinburg... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Yekaterinburg
AFTER SANCTIONS PUTIN ORDERS US TO CUT 755 EMBASSY STAFF
In December, President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and shuttered two Russian diplomatic country estates in Maryland and on Long Island... READ MORE›
25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO SIGN RUSSIA SANCTIONS, MOSCOW RETALIATES
The Russian Foreign Ministry's statement said the passage of the bill confirmed the extreme aggression of the United States in international affairs ... READ MORE›
A MAN PLAYED 'POKEMON GO' IN A RUSSIAN CHURCH. HE MAY SPEND 3 1/2 YEARS IN PRISON FOR IT.
Ruslan Sokolovsky, a blogger who played Pokemon Go on his phone in a church, attends a hearing at a court in Yekaterinburg on March 13... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS U.S. MUST CUT 755 DIPLOMATIC STAFF, MORE MEASURES POSSIBLE
The cuts would likely affect how quickly the United States is able to process Russian applications for U.S. visas, McFaul said... READ MORE›
POKEMON GO: RUSSIAN BLOGGER RUSLAN SOKOLOVSKY CONVICTED
Russian 'Pokemon Go' blogger convicted for playing in church... READ MORE›
WHAT REVOLUTION RUSSIA ASKS 100 YEARS LATER
Lenin fomented appalling bloodshed and destroyed the Russian Orthodox Church, a pillar of Mr. Putin's support... READ MORE›
MORE CALIFORNIANS DREAMING OF A COUNTRY WITHOUT TRUMP
The election of Republican businessman Donald Trump as president of the United States has some Californians dreaming... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | HE'S THE FOUNDER OF A CALIFORNIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT. JUST DON'T ASK HIM WHY HE LIVES IN RUSSIA.
Louis J. Marinelli is a man on a quixotic mission to help California secede from the United States and become an independent country... READ MORE›
PUTIN ORDERS CUT OF 755 PERSONNEL AT U.S. MISSIONS
It covers the main embassy in Moscow, as well as missions in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok... READ MORE›
WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES EXCLUDED FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE LAW SAY CAMPAIGNERS
MOSCOW -- In many ways, the movie Leviathan is Russia's greatest cinematic accomplishment in years, maybe decades... READ MORE›
THIS RUSSIAN CITY SAYS: 'DON'T CALL US SIBERIA'
Yekaterinburg explains the difference between Urals and Siberian culture... READ MORE›
THIS KREMLIN LEADER BRAGGED ABOUT TIPPING A U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
That happened at the height of the Cold War, in 1961, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met the then-recently elected John F. Kennedy in Vienna... READ MORE›
HOW THE ROMANOVS BROUGHT RED CROSS TO RUSSIA AND REVOLUTIONIZED MEDICAL CARE
The Russian Red Cross was established by the order of Tsar Alexander II, and placed in the care of his wife, Maria Alexandrovna... READ MORE›
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS MAKING HEADLINES AROUND THE WORLD. NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE WORLD TO START TAKING IT SERIOUSLY.
As people in the development community never tire of repeating, domestic violence is a major obstacle to human development... READ MORE›
KREMLIN CRITIC ALEXEI NAVALNY DETAINED IN MOSCOW RALLY
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and dozens others have been detained as thousands of people across Russia defied bans on rallies to protest against government corruption... READ MORE›
PUTIN'S RUSSIA HAS A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO FREEDOM -- AND PEOPLE WANT TO SHUT IT DOWN
The Yeltsin Center celebrates liberties won in a decade that many Russians would rather forget... READ MORE›
SAY GOODBYE TO 'AMERICANOS' IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA -- AT LEAST FOR NOW
But Bar-Restaurant Ogonyok in Yekaterinburg, Russia, has taken the patriotic name craze to a new level... READ MORE›
MILITANT CELL THAT PLANNED NY & CHRISTMAS ATTACKS IN MOSCOW DETAINED - ANTI-TERRORISM COMMITTEE
Over the course of 2016, Russian security services eliminated over 140 members of terrorist cells, among them 24 top-tier militants, said Igor Kulyagin, the NAC's deputy chief of staff... READ MORE›
RUSSIA EXHUMES CZAR NICHOLAS II IN SLAYINGS PROBE
But in July this year, at the request of the Russian Orthodox Church, further identification tests were ordered, according to officials... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN OPPOSITION ACTIVIST ALEXEI NAVALNY ARRESTED DURING PROTEST
Police detained Navalny, who hopes to run against Putin, as he walked along central Moscow's Tverskaya Street with supporters, part of an unsanctioned rally... READ MORE›
HACKER IS A VILLAIN TO RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES FOR DIFFERENT REASONS
In the indictment unsealed on Wednesday, the United States authorities indicated that Mr. Dokuchaev's group also had dabbled in spam marketing for erectile dysfunction drugs... READ MORE›
PUTIN JUST SAID 755 U.S. DIPLOMATS MUST LEAVE RUSSIA
Russian's Foreign Ministry on Friday ordered a reduction by Sept. 1 in the number of U.S. diplomatic personnel in Russia... READ MORE›
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY US DIPLOMATS WORKING IN RUSSIA?
Hundreds of people work for the US in Moscow and other Russian cities... READ MORE›
PRO-PUTIN PARTIES SHOW STRENGTH IN RUSSIAN ELECTIONS
Mr. Putin, visiting United Russia headquarters in Moscow on Sunday, expressed satisfaction with the results... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH BLOCKS FUNERAL FOR ROMANOV
The Russian Orthodox Church interceded, questioning -- not for the first time -- whether any of the remains were authentic, and the service was postponed indefinitely... READ MORE›
U.S. SHARPLY CURTAILS VISA SERVICES IN RUSSIA
It will be the only place in Russia offering American visa services... READ MORE›
RUSSIA LASHES OUT AFTER TRUMP'S SHUTDOWN OF DIPLOMATIC POSTS
The U.S. late last year kicked out several Russians posted there, calling it a response to election interference... READ MORE›
RUSSIA TO EXPEL 755 US DIPLOMATIC STAFF, MORE MEASURES POSSIBLE
The United States also revoked access to two Russian diplomatic compounds on Maryland's Eastern Shore and on Long Island... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: RUSSIA REFUSING TO SEND SOME RAIL FREIGHT TO LATVIA - SOURCES
Latvia is among several eastern European states opposing Nord Stream 2, a Russian-led initiative to build a new gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea to Germany... READ MORE›