Pop singer Yuri Shatunov, who was wildly popular in the 1980s and 1990s, died Thursday at the age of 48.

"Last night Yuri's heart stopped in an ambulance," said Shatunov’s manager, Arkady Kudryashov, the state-run news agency TASS reported. 

Shatunov was perhaps best known as the frontman of band Laskovy Mai (‘Gentle May’), which filled stadiums all

Russia plans to replace the badly damaged Azovstal steel plant in the captured Ukrainian port city of Mariupol with either an industrial park or a leisure zone, a Russian minister said Wednesday.

Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said rebuilding was already underway the site, which became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance after its outnumbered

UN experts have confirmed the full or partial destruction of 152 cultural and historic heritage sites in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country, its cultural agency said Thursday.

They include museums and monuments, churches and other religious buildings, and libraries and other exceptional buildings, UNESCO said in an update of its efforts to

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s global ratings have sunk to 20-year lows as thousands of Ukrainians are being killed and millions displaced in Russia’s invasion entering its fourth month, according to a Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday.

A median of 90% of respondents in 18 countries said they have no confidence In Putin “to do the r