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Many Muscovites celebrate winter with a visit to the world's biggest ice rink, a refurbished Cold War relic in a park dedicated to Soviet achievements that was created in the 1930s.

Russia protesters demonstrated Sunday against the upcoming presidential election that they say is rigged in President Putin's favor. Police detained the opposition leader who sparked the protests.

It's been nearly four years since the takeover, causing the U.S. and its allies to sanction Russia. A move that kicked off a downward spiral in relations between that country and the West.

Residents of some suburbs complain their lives are being ruined by the giant garbage dumps that ring the city. With no recycling in the capital, all trash goes into the expanding landfills.

Father Frost and his female companion the Snow Maiden, are Russia's answer to Santa Claus. In the gray days of the Soviet Union they bought some color and fun to families during the harsh Russian winter, and the pair are still popular today.

In 2019, a metal detectorist from Birmingham, England, found buried treasure: a 500-year-old gold necklace inscribed with the initials of King Henry-the-Eighth and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon.

President Vladimir Putin made his annual speech to the nation Thursday, just three weeks before Russia's presidential election. He promised to cut poverty and develop the economy, but Putin also focused on his efforts to make Russia a major player on the world stage.

The Russian government is expected to issue its response on Wednesday to the decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia from the next winter games, in February 2018.

Vladimir Putin's only serious opponent in Russia's upcoming presidential election, Alexei Navalny, has been banned from taking part, but he tells NPR he's not giving up his fight for democracy.

In Russia, there appears to be a Soviet-style crackdown on a group dedicated to researching and exposing human rights abuses dating back to the Soviet era. The organization is called Memorial.