Russia’s deputy foreign minister and a special envoy arrived in Damascus. Theirs was the first such visit since President Bashar al-Assad fled the country, according to Russian state news. By ...

Jan 27 (Reuters) - A new school textbook that likens Russia's war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was "forced" to send troops into Ukraine was presented in ...

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 ...

Nearly three years after Russia invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s economy is entering a critical phase as inflation, shortages, and shrinking cash reserves constrain his war effort soon ...

A Russian soldier from the 88th Española Brigade's separate strike and reconnaissance drone unit ... [+] with a Privet-82 loitering munition. A popular meme features a Ukrainian soldier talking ...

"Europe delivers: EU Foreign Ministers just agreed to extend again the sanctions on Russia," Kaja Kallas, the bloc's foreign policy chief, posted on social media. "This will continue to deprive ...

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The EU renewed sanctions on Russia and called for unity to respond to Donald Trump's transactional approach. The US president's warning to Moscow to end the war or face more penalties was more in ...

WASHINGTON WAS abuzz on February 14th with news of a mysterious Russian space weapon. Mike Turner, chairman of the House intelligence committee, urged the White House to declassify intelligence on ...

The Baltic Sea region is on high alert as fears grow that Russia could target undersea cables as part of a wider campaign of so-called "hybrid warfare". Most recently, a cable was damaged in ...