The last living daughter of Feodor Chaliapin, Russia's most famous opera singer of the 20th century, has died in Rome at the age of 98, a spokeswoman for a Moscow museum said on Tuesday.
Russian boxing giant Nikolai Valuev has recorded a hip-hop track with a member of the Moscow-based pop group Chelsea, Russian media said on Tuesday.
A brawl broke out in the Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday ahead of the consideration of a bill designed to expand the use of Russian language in the country, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
The U.S. Department of State criticized Russia for continuing violation of human rights and democratic freedoms in an annual report published on Thursday.
Russia has denied a NATO request to allocate $10 million for the support of the Afghan Army, the Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Thursday following the alliance’s summit in Chicago.
Almost third of Russians approve of the closure of the Occupy-style camp at Moscow’s downtown Chistoprudny Boulevard where people were protesting against Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency, a poll held by the Public Opinion Foundation has revealed.