Russian President Vladimir Putin spent his 63rd birthday on ice in Sochi playing hockey with the team of NHL (Night Hockey League) stars of Russian origin.

Putin’s visit to the UN was arguably the most anticipated event at this year’s session. Ahead of the president’s arrival in New York, RT’s Ilya Petrenko took a stroll on the city’s […]

The long awaited opening of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, the largest in Europe, is taking place in the Russian capital. It has capacity for around 10,000 worships to pray on six floors, […]

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has visited Russian-occupied Crimea to lay flowers with President Putin at a memorial to Sardinian soldiers killed in the Crimean war.

Russian president went to the bottom of Black Sea in a bathyscaphe to observe 11th century shipwreck.

The mostly Muslim Russian region of Chechnya opened its first ever women-only beach in the Grozny Sea tourist complex on Tuesday. Hundreds of women attended the opening ceremony of the new beach, […]

An Mi-28N military helicopter has crashed near Russia’s Ryazan during an aerobatic display performed as part of the Aviadarts competition in the 1st “military Olympics” in Russia.

Transaero Airlines is jumping onboard in a bid to save Siberian tigers. The Russian airline has unveiled the ‘Siberian Tiger’ livery on its Boeing 747-400, designed to raise awareness of the endangered […]

Welcome to the newest IT capital in Russia: Innopolis. The city just opened and already the plans are big. RT’s Igor Piskunov explores the new city.

Moscow’s metro is one of the most lavish and elaborately- decorated transport systems in the world. It’s also one of the busiest. Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from Moscow.