By Guy Faulconbridge ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will hold talks with President Vladimir Putin in Russia this week to explore ways to deepen what their foreign ministers cast on Tuesday as a burgeoning strategic partnership.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed many people in the U.S. agree with Russia's "traditional" views on family, gender, and culture, suggesting that support for these values is growing in the West. Putin spoke with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, who presents the program Moscow. Kremlin. Putin on state media channel Russia-1.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have held a lengthy phone call to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Ukraine peace talks.

North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and sappers to Russia's Kursk region to help rebuild it after a Ukrainian incursion that North Korean troops helped Moscow repel this year,

Russian business leaders are backing legislation that would stop Western companies one day returning to the market they left after the Ukraine invasion.

Smirnova, the director of the Narva museum that is housed in the fortress, has defiantly hung from the battlements a large banner of Putin’s face, with the words “war criminal” below it. In January this year a court in Moscow issued an arrest warrant for Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova on the charge of spreading false information.

By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin's energy point man said on Tuesday that there was a global need for more volumes of oil and that OPEC+ remained ready to be flexible if needed amid the conflict between Israel and Iran and a trade war.

An American citizen was among 15 people killed in Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight as Vladimir Putin once again displayed his contempt for peace and international diplomacy.President Donald Trump urged world leaders at the G7 summit in Canada on Monday to allow Russia back into the major power grouping,