The Latest Breaking News from St Petersburg

Heartbroken family gather at bedside of Lisa Rogers Eaton after she was brutally attacked in her St Petersburg home

Large flames and thick plumes of acrid smoke were seen rising into the air over the city on Saturday, November 19.

Russia's Wagner Group, a private militia controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, opened a military technology centre in St. Petersburg on Friday, the latest move by the Putin ally who has criticized the Kremlin's defence top brass over the Ukraine conflict.

TAMPA, Fla. -- When Pearl Prather opened Mystikal Scents in 2006, she served customers mostly from the Thonotosassa area where her store is located. But with the rise of social media, and then the pandemic, she watched interest in the metaphysical grow.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, an elusive Russian oligarch linked to an election-meddling troll farm, now openly admits he founded the private military company doing Vladimir Putin's bidding in Ukraine. But his brazen new approach could spell trouble for the president.

Moscow's mayor said on Monday that military mobilisation in the Russian capital was now complete while St Petersburg sacked the official in charge there, the latest sign of problems with the unpopular and chaotic draft for the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi on Tuesday that the situation around Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is "of concern". At a meeting in St Petersburg shown on Russian state television, Putin told Grossi, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog,…

The underground prison is situated in a bunker under a flood ravaged home near St Petersburg, Russia, and was first discovered last year. It is modelled after Kresty prison

St. Petersburg and Tampa are preparing for what could be their first direct hit by a major hurricane in over a century. Officials there are urging people to comply with evacuation orders immediately.