Today in History, Dec. 9

Pyotr Verzilov's eyes gleam with pride when he discusses the fame achieved by his wife, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: They say that internationally, she's the second [best-known] person in Russia, after Putin! he says, smiling. The triumphalism might ...

Two North Fleet ships, the Pyotr Veliky heavy nuclear missile cruiser and the Georgy Pobedonosets large landing ship, and the Yamal large landing ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet completed inter-fleet exercises in the Mediterranean Sea on ...

A strike was announced in the Lviv region of Ukraine on December 2, Pyotr Kolodiy, chairman of the Lviv region's council, said at a meeting of the Coordination Council headquarters, he said. Kolodiy said the staff of every enterprise or organization ...

Ex-Russian bobsledder Pyotr Markachuk accidentally lit himself on fire while carrying the Olympic torch through the Siberian city of Akaban on Wednesday. The torch relay has been plagued by blunders. It torch spontaneously extinguished 44 times ...

MOSCOW, November 11 (RIA Novosti) The Russian Northern Fleet's nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky was assigned on Monday to lead the country's permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean. The Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile ...

Print: Nov 16, 2013 Last Modified: Nov 15, 2013 MOSCOW On Nov. 10, Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky undressed on Moscow's Red Square, right in front of Lenin's tomb, sat down and nailed his scrotum to the pavement. Reactions to the ...

This is not something you'll see everyday. On Sunday Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky nailed a spike through his scrotum and into the cobblestone street in front of the Kremlin wall — Russia most famous public space — as a form of ...

Composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky may have died in November 1893, but 120 years later, Russia's genius is still at the center of a heated debate: his homosexuality just doesn't fit it with national ideology. It was a cold, drizzly night on the sixth of ...