Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

Lately, Princess Catherine has been fully in her element, championing causes close to her heart. Just last week, she announced her new role as a patron of Tŷ Hafan, a Welsh charity dedicated to ...

All the latest news, photos and more from Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. Catherine started her acting career in the West End before making her move to the screen in the 1990s. She is married ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

Russia's opening gambit ahead of expected peace talks has been laid out in the media, says our Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett. "There has been a lot of talk about potential meetings and contact ...

Russia's deputy foreign minister says all of Vladimir Putin's conditions for peace must be met if the US wants to end the war in Ukraine. Adding to the growing frenzy of commentary on a peace deal ...

UK Ministry of Defence reports suggest that Russia lost an average of 1,523 soldiers a day in November, 1,570 in December, and 1,556 in January, citing figures from Ukraine's General Staff.

MOSCOW, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Russia is resuming passenger flights to the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia for the first time in three decades, state media reported on Friday.

That meant that just a few months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, all three countries were able to stop buying electricity from Moscow. But Russia was still in ...