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 ...

With political activism off-limits, residents of St. Petersburg are finding purpose and community in the “politics of small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monument to Russian soldiers involved in military conflict against Ukraine opened near St Petersburg Monument to Russian soldiers ...

MOSCOW -- It takes a certain kind of bravery to protest in President Vladimir Putin's Russia, especially on the day he sends his country to war. I watched hundreds of people on a bitterly cold evening ...

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 ...

Last week, a St. Petersburg court in a closed door hearing, designated a leading Russian LGBT rights group, Coming Out, as an ...