President Vladimir Putin is contending with an unusual diplomatic challenge from a former Soviet nation that is pushing to ...

Russia is resuming passenger flights to the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia for the first time in three decades, state media reported on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a revival of the Soviet answer to the Eurovision Song Contest in an effort to ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...

Screen indicates that on February 8 the Baltic States will disconnect from the Russian electricity grid in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.

Multiple skaters who died on the American Airlines plane that collided with ... Inna Volyanskaya, 59, a former pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union, was also on the plane, according ...

Inna Volyanskaya, a former skater who competed for the Soviet Union, was also reported to have been on board, TASS said. The American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk on Wednesday night.

On Wednesday night, the American Airlines jet they were on collided ... Shishkova and Naumov started skating together in the 1980s in the Soviet Union and were two-time Olympians, but the peak ...

Korean Airlines flight 007 by the then-Soviet Union in 1983; Iran Air flight 655 by the United States in 1988; the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 by ‘Libyan agents’ in 1988; Sibir Airlines ...

Maxim was not on the American Airlines flight, the Skating Club of Boston confirmed. Ezra Shaw/Getty Evgenia and Vadim were both born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now called St. Petersburg ...