Militants on Oct. 28 made an attempt to break through into eastern Aleppo and out of it, but sustained heavy losses and were rolled back, the chief of the Russian General Staff’s main operations directorate, Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy said on Nov. 3.

Militant groups used the moratorium on flights by Russian and Syrian warplanes over Aleppo...

The Russian television channel Zvezda TV has shown images of the drills involving the Su-22s and MiG-29KUBs stationed on Russia’s Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier's air wing. The footage was taken in the Mediterranean Sea as the ship neared the coast of Syria, where it is to take part in Moscow’s military campaign against rebels seeking to o...

Russian society has been shocked by the actions of two teenage girls from Khabarovsk (3,800 miles east of Moscow), who would take animals from shelters and cruelly torture and kill them, before posting their bloody selfies on the internet. Now animal rights activists are signing petitions, posting denunciatory statements in social networks and...

U.S. actor Steven Seagal who was granted Russian citizenship on Nov. 3 by President Vladimir Putin, said he was "tremendously grateful for this opportunity," a statement provided to TASS by his agent reads.

"I always felt that U.S. and Russia should be best friends and allies. Despite the unfortunate propaganda going on I remain fully committed to...

An HIV epidemic has been raging in Yekaterinburg, one of Russia's largest cities (880 miles east of Moscow) – one out of every 50 residents is now infected with the virus. The news was announced on Nov. 1 by first deputy director of the Yekaterinburg health administration Tatyana Savinova, who revealed that 1,826 people out of 100,000 are infected...