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Since Vladimir Putin's rise, many hands have been wrung down to the bone in the West over his KGB pedigree. Fortunately there are journalists such as Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan to bring nuance, analysis and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting to the subject, which they do in their new book.

When U.S. authorities arrested 10 people accused of spying for Russia, Moscow quickly denied any knowledge of them. But now Russia is claiming the suspects as its own — something it has almost never done in the history of Moscow's spy games.

The death of a young Russian soldier — and the army's insistence that it was a suicide — sparks a wave of national soul-searching over the tradition of brutal hazing in Russia's military.

Russian drivers are infuriated by the ruling elite's brazen and reckless domination of the roads. Now they're fighting back.

Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov, whose battles with Garry Kasparov in the 1980s defined the game of kings for an era, is at the epicenter of an escalating political imbroglio spreading through the already fractious world of international chess.

News of Russia's worst terrorist attack in five years led news broadcasts around the world almost immediately. But in Russia, the country's three main television networks aired shows about cooking and makeovers.

Alexei Navalny is a unique type of opposition figure in Russia. He believes the most effective way to challenge the ruling class is not through elections, but by acquiring stock.

One feature of Soviet life needs no restoration, because it's never gone away: the notorious Soviet line.

Russia's business climate is being compromised by reiderstvo , or "raiding," a term that describes the illegal tactics used by criminals to seize businesses and land their owners in jail — or worse.

Russia has pledged to clean up its police forces — again — after whistleblowers posted videos online complaining of corruption, low pay and poor working conditions.

Of all the strange, colorful and often dangerous characters that traversed Russia's turbulent transition to a market economy, few had a more extraordinary biography than Shabtai von Kalmanovic.

Despite linguistic limitations and a distinctly un-Russian basketball pedigree, American basketball player J.R. Holden will lead a talented young Russian national team into the European basketball championships.

Alexander Gomelsky, the legendary coach who helped turn the Soviet Union into a basketball powerhouse and a pioneer in breaking the U.S. hegemony in the international game, died Tuesday morning in a Moscow hospital.

The Soviet police state was probably one of the least funny regimes in history, but the jokesters collected in Bruce Adams' book didn't see things that way.

In basketball circles, the name Arvydas Sabonis is inseparable from the question, "What if?"

While sex and violence are accepted components of Russian movies, profanity is still a major taboo. But Dmitry "Goblin" Puchkov's unique obscenity-laden translations of English-language movies have made him one of the hottest commodities on Russia's gigantic pirate movie market.

Pavel Podkolzin -- whose physical enormity has earned him the moniker "Siberian Shaq" -- has a chance to become the highest Russian NBA draft pick ever on June 26 in New York.