By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are starting to encircle the strategically important eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after capturing a string of ...

January in Russia conjures up images of Muscovites crunching through the snow in bulky coats -- not bunches of delicate ...

President Trump warned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine quickly, or else face “high levels of ...

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II.

In a sign of the importance Russia places in its relationships in Africa, Vladimir Putin met Thursday with Touadéra in Moscow, in what were the Russian president’s first international talks ...

Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. Its figures are, if not rosy, not ruinous either. Last year, the war economy likely grew ...

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed in Russia as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since ...

Russia and Iran Have a Troubled History Despite Their Current Alliance MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact ...

It has also been a key point of conflict between Russia and Ukraine after Moscow annexed the peninsula in 2014. In 2016, Ukraine took Moscow to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, where it accused ...

public anger in the Caucasian country is mounting against Moscow for its handling of the incident. "Although Russia tried to evade responsibility, it could not escape the facts," the daily news ...