Russia

Ukraine officials will boycott the Milano Cortina Paralympics next month over the participation of a handful of Russian and Belarusian athletes cleared to compete under their flags, Ukraine’s Sports ...

The Kremlin on Monday rejected accusations from five European countries that the Russian state had killed late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny two years ago using toxin from poison dart frogs, ...

Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands are convinced that late Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned with a lethal toxin in an Arctic penal colony two years ago, they ...

U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms META.O, has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with local law, the Kremlin said on Thursday, suggesting ...

Russia is preparing to send crude oil and fuel cargoes to Cuba in the near future, Izvestia newspaper said on Thursday, citing the Russian embassy in Cuba. Cuba is grappling ...

The International Olympic Committee’s decision to disqualify Ukraine’s skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych over the use of a helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia was “...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday she would propose a list of concessions that Europe should demand from Russia as part of a settlement to end ...

Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych cannot wear his “helmet of remembrance” honouring those killed in the war with Russia at the Winter Olympics skeleton competition but may use a black armband, the ...

Russia has transferred ownership of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport to a company linked to the operator of Sheremetyevo, following a court ruling that nationalised the asset earlier this year. In ...

The Kremlin said on Monday that the fuel situation in Cuba, which has unveiled a plan to protect essential services and ration fuel, was critical and that U.S. attempts ...

A Ukrainian-born Russian citizen has been extradited to Moscow from Dubai on suspicion of gravely injuring one of Russia’s most senior military intelligence officers, Russian security officials and investigators ...

The United States wants Moscow and Kyiv to find a solution on how to end the war in Ukraine before summer, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. In remarks to reporters released ...

A senior Russian military officer, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, was rushed to hospital after being shot in Moscow on Friday, investigators said, in the latest of a series of attacks ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday rejected an offer from his Russian counterpart to voluntarily extend the caps on strategic nuclear weapons deployments after the treaty that held them in check ...

Russia said on Thursday it regretted the expiry of its last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States but was still ready to talk, raising the possibility of a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s most senior diplomat was in Moscow on Tuesday to hold talks with Russian officials, said a source who was aware of the meeting and two ...

Ukrainian and Russian officials wrapped up a “productive” first day of new U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi, Kyiv’s lead negotiator said on Wednesday, as fighting in Europe’...

Russia pounded Ukrainian energy facilities with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles on Tuesday, knocking out heating to hundreds of thousands of families in freezing temperatures a day before ...

Russia has not carried out any targeted missile or drone strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in the last 24 hours although energy facilities in frontline areas have come under fire, Ukrainian ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia had reiterated its invitation for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to come to Moscow for peace talks,as U.S.-led efforts to reach ...

The leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday that he was opposed to talks on ending the war in Ukraine and that Moscow should fight on. “...

Russian drones and missiles hit Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, late on Monday, knocking out power during freezing winter weather, while 23 people were wounded in an overnight attack on the ...

Russia’s Far East was buried under metres of snow by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years on Tuesday as a winter blast swept across Asia, dusting Shanghai white and grounding ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Britain should no longer be called Great Britain as it was the only country in the world to officially name itself “...