Here’s how bad the Kremlin’s recruiting problem is: the government has started going to shelters to try and get unhoused people to fill the ranks of its tattered contract army. Government officials in ...

Some do it for the money; others for the motherland. Still others because they “just don’t have anything else to do.” Whatever their motivation, an unknown number of Siberia’s homeless have signed ...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Mikhail might not seem to have a lot going for him -- he's living rough in St Petersburg and facing another harsh winter in a rich city where most are oblivious to ...

A criminal gang in Russia been accused of stealing recruitment payments for homeless people they forced to sign on to fight in the war in Ukraine. The scam in the Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions ...

Officials have seized men from restaurants, cafes, Metro stations, and workplaces, per the report. The Russian military has suffered significant losses since the start of the war in Ukraine. Russian ...

The mayor of the Russian city of Yakutsk in Siberia, Yevgeny Grigoryev, has suggested sending homeless members of society to labor camps to prevent them from "corrupting people." "Homeless people are ...

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Most weeks, Roman Redman does a few extra hours in the kitchens of his ribs and burger joint in Saint Petersburg to cook for a less hipster clientele: the city's poor and ...

MOSCOW -- "Don't sleep, you'll freeze," Russians often say in a metaphoric admonishment against complacency. For people living on the street during the long, icy winter, the warning should be taken ...

In Saransk, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, authorities have launched a campaign to recruit homeless people, those with addictions, and pensioners for the war against Ukraine. The ...

A homeless cat in Russia has won praise for keeping warm a baby boy abandoned in a chilly entrance-way. The story took place in the town of Obninsk in the Kaluga region, where the baby was abandoned ...

FILE PHOTO: Vehicles of Russian peacekeepers leaving Nagorno-Karabakh region pass an Armenian checkpoint near Kornidzor NEAR KORNIDZOR, Armenia (Reuters) - Russian peacekeepers will escort the ...