Hundreds of young people gathered in St Petersburg to sing an outlawed song calling for Vladimir Putin to be overthrown. In a rare moment of public dissent, the crowd joined street musicians in a ...

Everyone expected “The Kholops,” a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg.

In a rare and almost unthinkable act of defiance in today’s Russia, a small crowd of young people gathered in central St. Petersburg to sing anti-war and anti-Kremlin songs, led by 18-year-old ...

Women hold portraits of their dead relatives during a ceremony unveiling a monument "To heroes of Special Military Operation", erected to pay respect to members of the Russian armed forces involved in ...

People walk on a snow-covered street in St. Petersburg, Russia, Jan. 10, 2026. (Photo by Guo Feizhou/Xinhua) A car drives ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russian Federation, August 29 (UNHCR) - It's known as the cultural capital of Russia, for its "white nights" summer festival when the sun never sets, and most recently for its football ...

People watch a light show projected on the facade of the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral on Orthodox Christmas Eve in the city of Kronstadt, outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Jan.