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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NATO countries are boosting defense spending. It's a move announced at a summit last week and designed, they say, to counter threats by Russia. But as NPR's Charles Maynes reports, Russia is eager to ...