The well-known Russian film director Alexey Balabanov died yesterday, aged 55, after losing his consciousness.

The legendary, multi-award winning Russian alpinist Alexey Bolotov tragically died, while plotting a new route on the south-western side of the Mount Everest.

Russian self-exiled tycoon Boris Berezovsky's funeral ceremony took place on May 8, in a British town of Woking near London, in the Brookwood cemetery.

Russia’s influential Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, best known as the architect of Russia’s ‘sovereign democracy’ political system, stepped down on Wednesday.

St.Petersburg artist Petr Pavelensky shocked the passers-by and police when he undressed and wrapped inside barbed wire in front of the local legislature.

On Friday, April 26, Russian court denied Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s motion for parole.

A poll timed to the 143rd birthday of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (April 22) shows that the majority of Russians consider his role played in the country’s history as positive.

Russian tycoon and Chelsea Football Club owner, Roman Abramovich, is named Russia’s most generous philanthropist, Bloomberg reports.

Alisher Usmanov, the owner of Metalloinvest metals giant and a major shareholder in London's Arsenal Football Club, has topped the Sunday Times Rich List in 2013.

Only one Russian person was included into the Time's 2013 list of the world’s top 100 most influential people, and he is not the Russian president.