MOSCOW, - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered ... an Austrian drag queen popularly known as "the bearded lady," won the contest in 2014, the year Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine.

The revived contest, planned to take place in Moscow later this year, is Russia's way of directly challenging Eurovision ...

Vladimir Putin is looking to launch Russia's own "macho" version of the Eurovision Song Contest. Putin is expected to reboot the Soviet Union’s defunct Intervision song contest as an anti-woke rival ...

From Prince's halftime performance to epic comebacks, our beloved voice of the airport train has seen it all in his Super ...

Before a series of songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov, she said, “Since this is a recital, I decided to bring you some beautiful Russian music.” After a prolonged standing ...

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 ...

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.

It contends that "the Russian armed forces were not structurally flawed, at least for conflicts such as those in the Donbas region [of Ukraine] (2014) and Syria (2015), as much as they were poorly ...

Russian battlefield casualties — dead and injured — have risen to more than 1,500 a day over the last three months, posing serious problems when it comes to replacing their numbers, military ...

But he said music could help dispel stereotypes. “By playing just a few notes,” he said, “we can open people’s eyes.” IN THE DAYS before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ...

In September 2014, Minsk Protocol (Minsk I), Russia committed to withdrawing illegal armed groups and military equipment from Ukraine. The February 2015 Minsk II Agreement (Minsk II) promised the ...