#Russia

By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light The death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny deprives President Vladimir Putin’s opponents of their most formidable leader and the man who, for some, ...

Nato joke aside, Trump’s isolationism nothing new in US Donald Trump’s rant in which he encouraged Russia to attack Nato member states failing to comply with their treaty ...

Ukraine said on Thursday it was withdrawing troops from some parts of the eastern town of Avdiivka to better positions after months of heavy fighting, and battle-hardened reserve fighters from ...

An entity formed of senior Yandex managers will become the Russian internet company’s largest shareholder with a 35 per cent stake should a $5.2 billion cash and share deal go through, ...

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko on Sunday set a world record for total time spent in space, surpassing his compatriot Gennady Padalka who logged more than 878 days in orbit, Russia’s ...

Army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi laid out a set of priorities for Ukraine and named challenges blighting the country’s war effort in an opinion piece published on Thursday after several ...

By Farid Mirbagheri ‘Interesting times’ we live in as the Chinese proverb goes. Two devasting wars, one in Ukraine and another in Gaza are ravaging human lives with a serious ...

Cyprus on Friday described as “an unpleasant development” the decision by Russia barring entry into its territory to three Cypriot officials connected with the deportation from the island of a ...

The fate of a man ordered to be extradited to Russia to face theft charges for allegedly providing false information for compensation linked to the Chernobyl disaster remained unknown on ...

A Russian regional governor said on Wednesday he had ordered the rebuilding of nine houses in a village that was accidentally bombed by one of Russia’s own warplanes. The ...

A Panama-flagged bulk carrier that was heading to the River Danube port to load grain hit a Russian mine in the Black Sea, injuring two crew members, Ukrainian officials said ...

Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been tracked down to a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle, his spokeswoman said on Monday, after supporters lost touch with him ...

US Ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher said that the United States will welcome the appointment of the UN Secretary-General’s envoy for Cyprus, who will tackle the challenge of finding ...

Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified on Saturday from running against President Vladimir Putin in an election next March because of alleged flaws in her application to register as ...

By Katerina Pillakouri On December 19, 2023, the European Union (EU) finally reached an agreement on its long-delayed 12th Russian sanctions package. The intention is to impose additional import and export bans ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday the military had proposed mobilising 450,000-500,000 more Ukrainians into the armed forces in what would mark a dramatic step up of Kyiv’...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar called on Russia to recognise north and for Russian President Vladimir Putin to interact directly with it, it emerged ...

Vladimir Putin will run for president again as an independent candidate with a wide support base but not on a party ticket, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday, citing his ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has already met with the US team of sanctions experts, as they continue to hold meetings with authorities in Cyprus over sanctions evasions and the findings which ...

Authorities on Wednesday appeared to be playing a game of hot potato over who was responsible for the apparent delay in investigating reports over PwC’s alleged role in potentially ...

A snap meeting was held at the presidential palace on Monday, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said, to discuss the revelations in last week’s ‘Cyprus Confidential’ report claiming to ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) is examining potential violations mentioned in the ‘Cyprus Confidential’ papers insofar as they concern credit institutions, it said on Thursday. It said that as ...

For Darya Stepanova, a mother of two who lives in a small town on the eastern side of the Ural mountains, soaring prices for everything from baby food to nappies ...

A global investigation on Tuesday claimed to show how Russian influence in Cyprus and on local service providers helped oligarchs and billionaires structure their wealth over the years preceding the 2022 ...