Russia Is Banned From the Olympics. But 2 Russian Figure Skaters Are Competing

Two Russian skaters, Adeliia Petrosian and Petr Gumennik, and one Belurusian, Viktoriya Safonova, have qualified for the Milano Cortina Olympics as neutral athletes. But because the team event ...

Putin, women, favours: Inside Epstein's Russia connections

Convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sought to build ties with Russia's political elite and appeared desperate to secure ...
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Russian street musician is jailed for 13 days after she played banned song

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A teenage Russian street musician was jailed for 13 days on Thursday after she played a banned anti-Kremlin song on St Petersburg's central avenue. Diana Loginova, an ...

An Unknown Woman: how I discovered a hidden tragedy tied to Russia’s most famous painting

It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untold ...