Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Add to the tension that Putin’s Russia has been engaged in a covert war against Ukraine since 2014, which he had turned into a full-scale ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Far-right activists from Russia’s largest nationalist movement, Russkaya Obshchina, donned black camouflage and patrolled multiple cities last month ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin had a call Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, emphasizing the two countries’ close ties, a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the ...

When Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, resigned on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he publicly implored Vladimir Putin, his handpicked but little-known successor ...

Speaking on the 25th anniversary of his rule, President Vladimir V. Putin delivered an upbeat and vague New Year’s Eve message that did not address casualties in Ukraine or rising inflation at home.

The problem was simply how to get a warning to Putin, who hasn’t spoken to Biden since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In Situation Room briefings, Biden aides looked at ...

A peace in Ukraine that puts America first must do more than stop the fighting: It must re-establish American credibility, demonstrate American primacy and strength, and ensure that Russia won’t ...

Putin makes statement on Trump hours before inauguration Welcomes Trump's comments on Russia ties Says he's willing to discuss Ukraine and nuclear arms MOSCOW, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Russian President ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a "tragic incident" following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that ...

Iran, Russia sign strategic treaty Move likely to worry West Both have suffered setbacks in Middle East Iranian drones used in Ukraine war MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir ...