YAROSLAVL, Russia—Yuri Novikov feels the Bern. The 78-year-old Russian surgeon remembers the day in 1988 when an unruly-haired Burlington, Vt., mayor named Bernie Sanders and his new wife, Jane ...

The Federal Penitentiary Service will set up commissions across Russia to carry out checks into cases of brutality against inmates after a beating scandal at a Yaroslavl prison MOSCOW, July 24.

But do Russians actually believe this? The BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg travels to the town of Yaroslavl to find out. Footage shows the moment Emmanuel Macron is shoved in the face by his ...