#Russia

A Russian delegation met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Monday, Iranian news agencies said, as the two countries prepared to sign a comprehensive cooperation agreement. The Russian delegation ...

Ukraine’s security service has named a Russian general it suspects of ordering a missile strike on a hotel in eastern Ukraine in August and said he acted “with the ...

The leader of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Russia, warned on Saturday that the republic was facing a “humanitarian catastrophe” due to a critical shortage of electricity. Badra ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the Ukraine war with his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis in a phone call on Wednesday, his ministry said on Thursday. Switzerland hosted a peace ...

Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region and Kryvyi Rih on Friday killed at least nine people and wounded 20 more, regional officials said. At least seven people were killed in ...

Western countries including the United States assailed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over the war in Ukraine on Thursday at an annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation ...

Russian and Syrian warplanes bombed rebel-held northwest Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday to push back an insurgent offensive that captured territory for the first time in years, ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed into law on Thursday Ukraine’s first wartime tax increases as the war against Russia reaches its 34th month. Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenkko said that the ...

Donald Trump’s refusal to engage in a smooth transfer of power during the interregnum in 2020-21 pales into insignificance compared with President Joe Biden’s sabotage of Trump’s ...

The United States was not surprised by Russia lowering its threshold for a nuclear strike and does not plan to adjust its own nuclear posture in response, the White House ...

A 47-year-old man, wanted by the Russian authorities for fraud, was arrested in Paphos on Monday afternoon. An arrest warrant had been pending against him for fraud committed between 2006 and 2015 ...

The United States’ decision to authorise Ukraine to use missiles supplied by them to fire on targets inside Russia “could have a positive impact in the defence of Ukraine”, Cypriot ...

Russian attacks on Monday killed two in Ukraine’s central-east Dnipropetrovsk region and injured at least 19, with more people likely trapped under the rubble, officials said. Shelling by artillery killed ...

Russia test-fired missiles over distances of thousands of miles on Tuesday to simulate a “massive” nuclear response to an enemy first strike. “Given the growing geopolitical tensions and the emergence ...

Algeria excluded French companies from a wheat import tender this week and required that participating firms did not offer French-origin wheat, in apparent fallout from renewed diplomatic tensions between Algiers ...

Ukraine will present its “victory plan” at a regular meeting of its allies at Ramstein in Germany on October 12, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a post on Telegram on Saturday. “...

The United States has seized 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to hack into government agencies including the Pentagon and State Department, the Justice Department said ...

Two Russian attacks in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region killed four people on Saturday including a Supreme Court judge who was delivering aid to local residents in a civilian car, ...

The death toll from an explosion at a petrol station in Dagestan in Russia’s Caspian Sea region has risen to 13, including two children, the emergencies ministry said on Saturday. ...

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on alleged Russian money laundering operations that catered to cybercriminals and involved three illegal exchanges. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment charging Russian ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s special representative Gunes Onar met Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Anna Evstigneeva on Tuesday, Tatar’s office said. The meeting ...

Russia launched a new overnight drone attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Saturday, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to issue a fresh appeal for more air defence and long-range ...

Cyprus issued over 30,000 residence permits in 2023, mostly to Russians, Indians, and Nepalese individuals, a Eurostat report showed on Thursday. According to the report, Cyprus gave out 34,000 residence permits last year, ...

Russia’s digital development ministry plans to allocate nearly 60 billion roubles ($660 million) over the next five years to improve the system used to censor web traffic, a government proposal seen ...