Russia reburies empress in imperial crypt
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Russia reburied the   mother of its last tsar on Thursday nearly 90 years after the   Bolshevik revolution forced her into exile, in a homecoming the   country hopes will help reconcile it with its bloody past.
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Russian archaeologists believe they may have found the remains of two children of the last tsar, executed in 1918.
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Madonna slipped into Moscow under a shroud of secrecy and tight security for a concert that has sparked protests and rekindled debate about RussiaÂs embrace of Western values in the post-Soviet era.
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Arts & entertainment: Royal Academy in London struggling to save  exhibition after Russia withdraws loans of paintings
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The charges opened a new line of legal attack against a Kremlin foe who was once regarded as Russiaâs richest man.
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers exhumed from a war grave in a move that sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.
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A British minister on Sunday condemned  "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia and  media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe  the radiation death in London of a former KGB spy.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - The mother of Russia's   last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was   to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia   tries to make peace with its dark past.
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A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday Â the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.
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Svetlana Khorkina was born in a poor industrial town on the Ukraine border, but not in her mind. There, she inhabited the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, surrounded by fawning courtiers and Fabergé eggs. It showed here last night as the walls of her ...
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An ex-Soviet spy who defected to Britain is to be honoured by the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
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Russia said Wednesday it was likely to cancel a landmark exhibition of Russian art in London because Britain had not guaranteed the paintings' return, adding to growing tensions between the two countries.
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The circumstances may be solemn, but Dimitry Romanov is quietly rejoicing. On Saturday, the 80-year-old retired bank clerk will escort the remains of his distant relative Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Russia's last emperor, on a final journey from Denmark to St. Petersburg.
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A Vatican delegation has returned a centuries-old Russian Orthodox icon to Russia&#39;s Orthodox patriarch in a special ceremony. The Icon of Our Lady of Kazan, which has spent the last
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Ukrainian reburies the bodies of some 2,000 people killed by the Soviet secret police more than 60 years ago.
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A Russian historian said Thursday that he told British police he bumped into the chief suspect in the murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London earlier than the suspect admits being in the city, but police initially doubted his story.
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Eight exhumed Soviet soldiers have been reburied in Estonia, at a ceremony boycotted by Russian diplomats.