A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a military installation in a Muslim region of southern Russia early Sunday, killing three soldiers and injuring more than 30 others, officials said. The attack in the region, Dagestan,...

A new wave of wildfires swept through villages in southern Russia on Thursday, killing at least two people and destroying hundreds of homes, officials and news reports said. Fires driven by high winds destroyed nearly 500 buildings in the Volgograd and...

Ethnic tensions have flared in Moscow after investigators freed a Chechen native who admitted to killing an ethnic Russian in a brawl earlier this month. Thousands of people have flocked to three rallies — the latest on Monday night — to call for...

Saakashvili’s anti-Russian rhetoric is part of a bid to restore his popularity, badly damaged by the five-day war when Russia crushed a Georgian assault on rebel South Ossetia. Opposition groups, some of which want closer cooperation with...

A Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice but was not in any danger, a shipping company said Tuesday. The Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker is about...

It was late on a Monday afternoon at the drunk tank in this Moscow suburb, but it could have been any day, at any hour, at any similar facility across this land. People would come. They always do. Such is Russia’s ruinous penchant for the bottle —...

A longtime opposition figure in the republic of Ingushetia was killed Sunday morning when his car was strafed with gunfire as he drove along a federal highway, adding another name to the list of activists who have been killed recently in the Northern...

It’s a cliché because it’s true: Russians love their booze. The word for the national drink, vodka, is in fact a cutesy version of the word for water. The first course in every meal is designed to encourage its consumption. And there is...

As a young officer fresh out of a Soviet military academy, Alexander Primak was assigned to serve in this frontier city in the Russian Far East, eight time zones away from his home town in Ukraine. He spent the next quarter-century in the region,...

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ilshat Alsayef, one of the founding members of Muslims Against Sharia. He was born in of the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. A military officer for most of his adult life, Mr. Alsayef started his...