The USS Ross and the USS Porter launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian Shayrat Airbase near the city of Homs. Washington justified the attack by saying it was a "proportional response" to the chemical attack on civilians in Idlib Province, which allegedly was carried out by Assad's forces.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the American...

The first ever meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump on the U.S. president’s turf – at his beachside Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida – was duly regarded as a landmark chance to patch up old quarrels and stabilize relations between Washington and Beijing.   

It was not easy going for the two leaders. Neither Trump, the distinguished China-basher...

The opinion voiced by several experts that the U.S. strike targeting a Syrian military airbase was an “emotional reaction” by President Donald Trump is questionable. The timing was excellent for Washington and the possibilities of starting a direct conflict with Russia were minimized. The Russian military had been warned of the strike beforehand,...

At the beginning of the 20th century the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). Inspired to use this new method to record the diversity of the Russian Empire, he photographed numerous historic sites during the decade before the abdication of...

Alexander Blok, the poem 'The Twelve'

Illustration for "The Twelve." Source: Yury Annenkov

To begin with, influential lyrical poet Alexander Blok enthusiastically...

Almost half of Russians believe their life would not change without the Internet, a survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center showed on April 7.

"The hypothetical disappearance of the Internet will cause no panic," the pollster said. "47 percent of Russians said nothing will change in their life in this case and 26 percent...

Around 200 young people under 15 years old, and about 1,500 between the ages of 15 and 20, joined the March 26 protests in Moscow, said a participant in a closed-door conference of regional educational ministers held in St. Petersburg, Gazeta.ru reported.

State officials, however, were told not to conduct "preventive interviews" with young...

Irrespective of who carried out the bombing (intelligence services of the Republic of Kirgizstan assert the terrorist was of Kirgiz origin), it doesn’t have the usual characteristics of a "one wolf" attack but is typical of a premeditated, carefully planned terrorist act.

The target (civilians), scale (the bomb was placed in the center of the...

U.S. President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin only to express condolences over the St. Petersburg metro bombing, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on April 4.

"The U.S. president made this call to offer condolences and express solidarity with Russian people," Peskov said, adding that the two leaders had no detailed...