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Russia has warned NATO that it is willing to resort to the use of nuclear weapons if the Western military alliance tries to enforce a blockade of the Kaliningrad region, a Russian exclave bordering th...

A Russian intelligence network planned to assassinate exiled opposition figures Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomaryov in the United States this summer, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported Tuesday.

Russia’s government debt stands at about 19% of gross domestic product, a figure President Vladimir Putin uses to reassure Russians as the country’s budget deficit widens.  The federal budget deficit ...

Opinion | Two more Western giants have fallen to the Kremlin.

The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed press reports that it was discussing the release of political prisoners in exchange for easing U.S. sanctions.

Sergei Melikov, the former head of the republic of Dagestan, has been appointed as a senator from the western Bryansk region in Russia’s upper-house Federation Council.  Melikov, a member of the rulin...

Russia has extended its ban on diesel exports for fuel producers until Oct. 31, the government said on Wednesday, adding further strain to a global energy market already rattled by the wars in Ukraine...

Ksenia Maximova was ranked among the world’s 50 most successful models in the 2000s, but today is better known as a prominent figure in Russia’s anti-war movement in London.  Since 2022, Maximova has ...

Police investigators said Wednesday that they recovered the remains of four missing crew members of a Russian fishing vessel that caught fire near the Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula.

Opinion | If the mysterious Russian soul is traditionally supposed to be understood by reading imperishable Russian literature, perhaps the best way to understand the feelings of Russian women in wart...

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Ksenia Maximova was ranked among the world’s 50 most successful models in the 2000s, but today is better known as a prominent figure in Russia’s anti-war movement in London.  Since 2022, Maximova has ...

Six crew members on board a Russian military aircraft that crashed in the Far Eastern Amur region were killed, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Tuesday tightening restrictions on taking cash from Russia to neighboring countries.

Russia is likely to keep banking on various coercion tactics to bolster its military manpower in Ukraine, experts say, a strategy that has proven effective at ensuring a continuous supply of fresh rec...

Russian airlines recorded a 7% drop in passenger traffic during the summer travel season, as a surge of daily Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted operations at dozens of airports across the country, the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev held "constructive" talks with U.S. officials on ending the Ukraine war, including possible U.S.-Russia energy initiatives in the postw...

The Kremlin has denied accusations that it was behind a fire that broke out at a military robotics plant in Estonia last month.

President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Monday that raises the strength of the Russian military by 15,500 personnel, bringing the total number of active-duty servicemen to 1.55 million.

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Russia’s government debt stands at about 19% of gross domestic product, a figure President Vladimir Putin uses to reassure Russians as the country’s budget deficit widens.  The federal budget deficit ...

Fourteen people were killed in a fire at a pyrotechnics factory in the Yaroslavl region on Monday, state media reported, citing emergency services.

Russia plans to spend 17.1 trillion rubles ($202.58 billion) on defense in 2027, around 27% more than the 13.5 trillion rubles originally budgeted and the highest figure since the start of the war in ...

Opinion | Two more Western giants have fallen to the Kremlin.

Russia’s government debt stands at about 19% of gross domestic product, a figure President Vladimir Putin uses to reassure Russians as the country’s budget deficit widens.  The federal budget deficit ...

President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on Monday that places the Russian subsidiary of German retailer Metro AG under “temporary management” of the state.

The book publisher Individuum has announced its closure following the criminal prosecution of its senior managers on so-called LGBTQ+ “extremism” charges. “The publishing house Individuum, which was f...

Rumors that the Kremlin could order another mobilization to sustain its invasion of Ukraine after this month’s parliamentary elections have circulated in Russian media for months.

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions against 10 Russian officials over the exclusion of the liberal Yabloko party from this month’s parliamentary elections and the recent criminal prosecutio...

Colonel General Alexander Lapin, a controversial Russian military commander dismissed from service last year following battlefield setbacks in Ukraine, has been appointed deputy prime minister of the ...

A major utility outage has cut off running water to more than 650,000 people in the Far Eastern Primorsky region, local emergency officials said Monday.

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Russia’s government is suspending routine state inspections of companies whose property has been damaged in Ukrainian attacks, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko said Monday, describing the tempo...

Forests have served as both refuge and resource throughout Russian history.

Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider, on Sunday, the company told local media, as Moscow continued a bombardment of Ukrainian data centers and communicati...

Opinion | When I was approached to write this article, I was asked to demonstrate the evidence that Russia’s elections were falsified in favour of the ruling United Russia party.

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U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, in his first detailed published account of his arrest in Russia in 2023, says he was the victim of an elaborate sting operation by the FSB security service.

Russia could quickly restart up to 80% of its grain terminal capacity in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov if diplomatic efforts to halt mutual attacks by Russia and Ukraine result in a ceasefire, a Reute...

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The United States has proposed that the United Arab Emirates host a trilateral meeting with Ukraine and Russia to discuss efforts to end the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday.

Political consultant and elections expert Alexander Kynev has been arrested in Moscow on drug charges, the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported Friday.

Russia’s ruling party, United Russia, won a record number of seats in the lower-house State Duma, election officials announced Friday in confirming the final results of the country’s first wartime par...

Forests have served as both refuge and resource throughout Russian history.

At least one person was killed as Ukraine launched another nightly round of drone strikes across Russia, regional authorities said early Friday, as two oil refineries were reported to have been hit du...

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Russia’s lower-house State Duma is creating a new committee to oversee artificial intelligence, e-commerce and drone development, officials announced Thursday.

Russia’s Finance Ministry submitted its draft budget proposal for 2027 on Thursday, introducing a fresh round of tax increases on passive income, e-commerce and corporate windfalls as Moscow struggles...