Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, exposed as the women behind Pussy Riot, are on trial for hooliganism in Russia.
Russia’s most famous prisoner has likened the Pussy Riot trial to a medieval inquisition and says their prison regime may amount to torture.
Vladimir Putin sought a convincing victory in Russia’s presidential election to strengthen his hand in dealing with the biggest protest of his rule.
Three astronauts have blasted off to the ISS as Russia seeks to restore confidence in its space programme after recent botched launches.
Russia’s failed Mars moon probe points to problems of a once-pioneering space industry struggling to recover after a generation of brain drain.
Astronomers in Russia say contact with an extraterrestrial civilisation is inevitable, and that aliens will probably look just like humans.
A tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant might give some countries pause over the risks of exposing reactors to the power of the oceans. Not Russia.
Revda is a collection of apartment blocks that rise out of nowhere in Russia’s far north, a town whose existence hangs by a thread.