The Latest Breaking News from St Petersburg

Maxim Tesli, front man of a band called Shchenki (The Puppies), is detained at a St Petersburg airport

Officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, want to make it clear that their city is the current and future home of the Tampa Bay Rays as negotiations continue on a proposed new $1.3 billion ballpark

Dutch police detain 62-year-old in relation to death of Aleksandr Levin, whose torso was found in IJ River

Putin seen playing table tennis and accompanying then mayor of St Petersburg on fishing trip

The playoff-bound Tampa Bay Rays put the finishing touches on plans for a new 30,000-seat ballpark in St. Petersburg

Karin Kneissl is relocating to Russia to lead a thinktank she established in collaboration with St Petersburg University

Karin Kneissl says she is moving to Russia to lead a thinktank she set up with St Petersburg University

Pope Francis’s video speech to the All-Russian Meeting of Catholic Youth in St Petersburg, urging them to “not forget their heritage” has caused quite a stir. What struck a bitter chord internationally – and especially in Ukraine – about the remarks he delivered on August 25 was not so much…

Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash last week. Many Russians are mourning — and speculating about the crash.