Russia

A shaven-headed Evan Gershkovich went on trial behind closed doors on Wednesday in a Russian court where the U.S. journalist is accused of spying. Prosecutors say the Wall Street ...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it was banning access inside Russia to the broadcasts of dozens of European Union media outlets in what it said was retaliation for ...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Sergei Shoigu, the former Russian defence minister, and leading Russian general Valery Gerasimov on Tuesday for alleged crimes committed during Russia’s ...

The Kremlin squarely blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow formally warned ...

The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia’s mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 19 on Monday after gunmen went on the ...

Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in attacks across two cities in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing an ...

Russian officials said on Sunday that Ukraine had attacked the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five U.S.-supplied missiles, killing at least three people including two children and injuring 100 more. ...

Moscow may change the timing for use of its nuclear weapons if threats against Russia increase, the RIA state news agency cited Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the Russian lower ...

Russia launched three missiles overnight on Ukraine, with air defence systems destroying two of the weapons over the Kyiv region, Ukraine’s Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said on Sunday. ...

Russia sees a pressing need for security talks with the United States but they must be “comprehensive” and include the subject of Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday. “It is ...

A drone crashed into the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Friday, injuring at least two people and causing a small fire, local authorities said. Ukraine ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Vietnam early on Thursday for talks with the country’s Communist leaders on the final stop of his two-nation tour of Asia after concluding ...

Russian drone and missile strikes damaged energy infrastructure across Ukraine on Thursday in the latest major attack on the country’s civilian energy system, the Ukrainian energy ministry said. The ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a deal with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on Wednesday that includes a mutual defence pledge, one of Russia’s most significant moves in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Tuesday to deepen trade and security ties with North Korea and to support it against the United States, as he headed to the reclusive ...

Russia’s espionage trial of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who denies charges of collecting secrets for the U.S. CIA, will be held behind closed doors, the ...

Russia said on Monday that a Swiss-hosted conference on the Ukraine war had produced negligible results and showed the futility of holding talks without Moscow. The Kremlin was commenting on ...

The European Union is proposing to sanction Russia’s oil-shipping giant Sovcomflot PJSC (FLOT.MM) in a move to limit the Kremlin’s ability to finance its war against Ukraine, ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would end the war in Ukraine only if Kyiv agreed to drop its NATO ambitions and hand over the entirety of four provinces ...

World leaders will join Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a summit this weekend to explore ways of ending the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two, but Russia ...

One of Russia’s top security officials called on Thursday for Russians to mobilise to inflict “maximum harm” on Western societies and infrastructure as payback for increasingly tough sanctions being ...

New US sanctions that forced Russia’s leading exchange to halt dollar and euro trading led to a range of varying prices and spreads as trading moved over-the-counter (OTC) on ...

NATO is set to take over the coordination of arms deliveries to Ukraine from the U.S., the alliance’s chief said on Wednesday, in a bid to safeguard the ...

A new agreement between Moscow and Tehran on comprehensive cooperation has been temporarily suspended due to problems that Iranian partners are facing, Russia’s RIA state news agency reported on ...