The slowdown indicates that Western sanctions, though not a knockout blow, are increasingly damaging the Russian economy.

Picture the frozen winds of the Ice Age tearing across vast, wild plains. Imagine two giants—one with fangs like daggers, the other with a regal mane—stalking the shadows. The saber-toothed tiger and ...

Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...