The Kremlin‘s tightening grip on Russian life has a new target: the country’s most popular messaging app, Telegram.

Russian authorities have taken new measures to ensure they can monitor all communications by people inside the country, officially blocking access to the popular, Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp.

Residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities are finding that their smartphones have been dumbed down amid an unprecedented shutdown of the mobile internet.

The number of foreigners acquiring Russian citizenship fell sharply in 2025, extending a multi-year decline that began after ...

A court in Russia on Tuesday designated a prominent LGBTQ+ rights group as an extremist organization, the latest blow to the country’s beleaguered community that has faced an intensified crackdown in ...

Russia has blocked the U.S.-based messaging app WhatsApp, the Kremlin announced Thursday, claiming the Meta-owned company failed to comply with local laws. The move follows six months of pressure on ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's richest people saw their wealth rise by more than 8% to $625.5 billion over the past year, with at least 146 billionaires listed by the Forbes Russian-language list of the ...

MOSCOW — Russia accused Ukraine on Thursday of killing at least 24 people, including a child, in a drone strike on a hotel and cafe where civilians were seeing in the New Year in a Russian-controlled ...