Russia's "second city," St. Petersburg, was built three centuries ago — which is recent, compared with most cities in Russia. Emperor Peter the Great imagined a luxurious playground for the ...

Ukraine’s capacity to strike Russia’s major cities has come under the spotlight since President Trump asked if Kyiv could do ...

ST. PETERSBURG, March 9, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Across the Neva River from the Peter and Paul Fortress and beneath the towering blue and gold minarets of the massive St. Petersburg Mosque, stands a ...

Arrests in St. Petersburg, Russia, mirror those happening on the streets of Moscow and beyond. Back here in St. Pete, Florida, demonstrators have stood in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

Vladlen Tatarsky, an infamous pro-Russian combatant turned propagandist, was killed in an explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe that injured at least 25 others, according to the Russian government.

Russia's defence ministry said it had carried out air defence drills involving interceptor jets after St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport was forced to suspend all flights on Tuesday for an hour.

The Russian president worked with Mr. Beglov in St. Petersburg in the 1990s, later employed him in the Kremlin and last year named him as acting governor, the equivalent of mayor.

A woman walks past a bus stop in St. Petersburg on March 15, 2022. Sirens blared across Russia as part of a national emergency drill on Wednesday, but in St.Petersburg, speakers played an excerpt ...

St. Petersburg reported 5,922 new COVID-19 cases, adding to Moscow's 15,987. Friday's total of 49,513 new infections is Russia's highest during the pandemic.