Victoria Balandina, 22, horrifically plunged to her death after she slipped on the so-called 'Wheel of Death' during ...

Alex Ovechkin won’t be in the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Some individual Russian athletes will. This is how the IOC defines ...

Putin’s predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, had become a walking punch line.​​ Russia was still reeling from the humiliation of ...

The horrific moment a lion attacked a well-known circus performer in Russia has been caught on video. The beast 'clawed and sank its teeth' into Alexey Makarenko, 42, during a performance in ...

A shocking incident occurred at a circus in Bijsk, Russia, where a performing bear suddenly attacked its trainer during a show, nearly leading to a tragic outcome. The bear, initially riding a ...

Bears are kept in travelling circuses in many parts of the world, particularly in Russia, but mistreatment can often lead to them attacking and even killing their trainers or other circus performers.

Russian performers won the main prize of the Golden Elephant festival in Spain, which is considered one of the most respected circus competitions in the world. The performance of the Russian State ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

This has not been the first time a gymnast has horrifically fallen on their head while performing at a circus in Russia. Alexey Sh, 14, was performing spins and swinging from high wires when a ...

Russia was still reeling from the humiliation ... he’d have to offer Russians something more than a vision of greatness. The circus—military parades, shirtless equestrianism, singing ...