Western companies that "slammed the door defiantly" when they left Russia will not be allowed to buy back the businesses they quit for small
March 18, 2025
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will hold a phone call between 1300 and 1500 GMT on Tuesday to talk about settling the Ukraine conflict and normalising relations between
March 18, 2025
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump is committed to ensuring peace and security through “realism and pragmatism,” in remarks Tuesday before the U.S. leader speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin
March 18, 2025
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about U_S_ Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard saying President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends.”
March 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a U.S. hedge fund permission to buy securities in Russian companies from certain foreign stakeholders and authorised their future sale to two
March 17, 2025
Russia and Ukraine have traded heavy aerial blows with both sides reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories overnight
March 15, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that Western allies other than the U.S. were stepping up preparations to support Ukraine in
March 14, 2025
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told global leaders to “keep the pressure” on Russian President Vladimir Putin to back a ceasefire in Ukraine
March 15, 2025
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine
March 14, 2025
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Ukrainian troops remaining in the Kursk region of Russia will be ruthlessly destroyed if they continue to fight.
March 14, 2025
Russia will spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region if Kyiv tells them to surrender, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday
March 14, 2025
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on a finalised draft peace agreement wirh Azerbaijan in a phone call, the Armenian government said on
March 14, 2025
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle,
March 13, 2025
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine but that any ceasefire would have to deal with the root causes of the
March 13, 2025
Ukraine’s consent to a 30-day ceasefire proposal has handed the Kremlin a difficult challenge at a time when its military has an upper hand in the war
March 12, 2025
Contacts between Russia and the United States are now quite intensive, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency.
March 11, 2025
Russia sees restoring ties with the United States as a long, hard task but believes there is political will on both sides to move forward, the Kremlin said on Monday.
March 10, 2025
The Kremlin supports Serbia's authorities as they face growing anti-government protests, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday following a phone call with Russian leader
March 07, 2025
Russia will seek a peace deal in Ukraine that safeguards its own long-term security and will not retreat from the gains it has made in the
March 06, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Darchiev, a veteran diplomat known in the past for public denunciations of the West, as ambassador to the United States on
March 06, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would continue supplying electricity to the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia at a meeting in the Kremlin on Wednesday with its leader
March 05, 2025
Russia's President Vladimir Putin hailed expanding ties with ally Myanmar at talks with its military junta chief on Tuesday and thanked him
March 04, 2025
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned "Western elites" against trying to sabotage a potential rapprochement between Russia and the
February 27, 2025
President Vladimir Putin has offered the U.S. the opportunity under a future economic deal to jointly explore Russia's rare earth metal
February 26, 2025
President Vladimir Putin hosted Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo for talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the latest sign of a drive by Moscow to build up economic and
February 26, 2025
Europe's participation in Ukraine peace talks will be needed eventually but Moscow first wants to build trust with Washington, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, while
February 24, 2025
China’s Xi stresses strength of Russia ties in Putin call as Washington warms to Moscow
February 24, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with officials on Monday to discuss rare earth metals production, which he described as a strategic reserve vital for Russia's future
February 24, 2025
Russia is open for economic cooperation with the U.S., President Vladimir Putin' new special envoy on international economic cooperation said in response to President Donald Trump's
February 24, 2025
China's President Xi Jinping affirmed his "no limits" partnership in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, China's
February 24, 2025
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday appointed Kirill Dmitriev, the chief of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, as a special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation.
February 23, 2025
Thousands rallied in Bratislava and other Slovak cities on Friday calling for Prime Minister Robert Fico to resign and keeping up protests against a foreign policy that critics
February 21, 2025
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia should speed up plans to mine its deposits of lithium, a metal crucial for the production of
February 21, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a "legitimate" leader and that, unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin, he had
February 20, 2025
U.S.
February 20, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine three years ago has turned into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II
February 20, 2025
Two prominent GOP senators, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin amid negotiations in the peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
February 19, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war, but success would depend on raising the level of trust between
February 19, 2025
Russia is planning to hold high-level contacts with Syria in the near future, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
February 19, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a delegation to meet with senior officials from U.S.
February 18, 2025
Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser, said on Monday that Moscow and Washington had yet to agree on how to embark on Ukraine peace talks as the
February 17, 2025
A year after Navalny’s death, his widow urges ongoing fight for a ‘free’ Russia
February 16, 2025
Britain on Friday imposed sanctions targeting figures working in the Russian government, including Pavel Fradkov, a deputy minister for defence, and Vladimir Selin, who leads an arm
February 14, 2025
U.S.
February 13, 2025
Ukrainians on Thursday worried that U.S.
February 13, 2025
U.S. stocks rallied to the brink of a record after more companies reported fatter profits than expected
February 13, 2025
China has floated a proposal to hold a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
February 13, 2025
Russia's President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, the first direct communication between the two since
February 12, 2025
The head of Russia's powerful Orthodox Church said in remarks published late on Tuesday that "weirdos" were trying to spread paganism in the combat zone in Ukraine and called for efforts
February 12, 2025
High inflation is the key challenge for the Russian economy in 2025, while the economic growth rate is expected to fall from 4.1% recorded last
February 07, 2025
U.S.
February 07, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told European Union leaders at a dinner on Monday that he wanted to work together to expand the continent's defences, including greater
February 02, 2025
President Donald Trump says his administration has already had “very serious” discussions with Russia about its war in Ukraine and that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin could soon take “significant” action toward ending the grinding conflict
January 31, 2025
President Vladimir Putin has authorised Armenian investment fund Balchug Capital's purchase of Goldman Sachs' unit in Russia, a government decree published on Friday showed,
January 31, 2025
The International Criminal Court has found itself without a single trial ahead for the first time in years
January 29, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine could find a legal way to hold peace talks with Russia on ending their nearly three-year-old war, but Moscow sees no
January 28, 2025
A new school textbook that likens Russia's war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was "forced" to send troops into Ukraine was presented
January 27, 2025
The Kremlin said on Monday it had yet to receive any signals from the United States about arranging a possible meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump,
January 27, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published on Friday that he saw no objective signs that Ukraine or the West were ready for peace talks despite all their
January 24, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear he wants to restart nuclear arms cuts talks as soon as possible, the Kremlin said on Friday in response to comments by U.S.
January 24, 2025
President Vladimir Putin has grown increasingly concerned about distortions in Russia's wartime economy, just as Donald
January 23, 2025
Xi and Putin hail tightening ties in call hours after Trump inauguration
January 22, 2025
Former deputy national intelligence director Beth Sanner weighs in on President Donald Trump's remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the way he's handling the war in Ukraine.
January 21, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed on Tuesday how to build ties with Donald Trump,
January 21, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated U.S.
January 20, 2025
The presidents of Russia and Iran have signed a broad cooperation pact to deepen their partnership amid stinging Western sanctions
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart, President Masoud Pezeshkian, to sign a broad partnership pact
January 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian deepened military ties between their countries on Friday by
January 17, 2025
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday he believed their two countries could finalise agreements on the construction of a nuclear
January 17, 2025
A strategic partnership treaty that Russia and Iran are poised to sign will govern the two countries' relations for the next two decades, the TASS state news agency reported on
January 14, 2025
A Ukrainian official says Russian forces are bypassing a key stronghold in eastern Ukraine that they have fought for months to capture and are focusing instead on cutting supply lines to it
January 13, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will hold talks in Russia on Jan. 17 after which they will sign a long-awaited comprehensive strategic
January 13, 2025
Thousands of Slovaks have taken to the streets as protests against the pro-Russia policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico spread from Slovakia's capital to towns and cities across the country and abroad
January 10, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Slovakia that Russia's Gazprom would find alternative ways to deliver contracted gas to Slovakia after the end of transit through
January 10, 2025
Ukraine expects high-level contact with the new U.S. administration immediately after Donald Trump takes office, including an eventual meeting between the U.S. president-elect and
January 10, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient to
January 09, 2025
Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday he had secured Slovakia's gas supply during a visit to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last month, just before Ukraine halted
January 08, 2025
The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, celebrating Christmas alongside Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that the Western world despised Russia and its "alternative path
January 07, 2025
Russia vows retaliation after saying it downed eight US-made long-range missiles
January 04, 2025
CNN global affairs analyst Kim Dozier responds to Russian President Vladimir Putin's apology for the "tragic’" Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash, in which he makes no claim of responsibility, and discusses a potential motive behind Putin’s apology.
December 28, 2024
President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a New Year address that the country would move forward with confidence in 2025, though he offered no specific promises on the
December 31, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and Russia have always moved forward "hand in hand" on the right path, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday,
December 31, 2024
Azerbaijan’s president accuses Russia of downing airliner in Christmas Day crash and covering up cause
December 29, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to solidify the country's comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia in his letter to President Vladimir Putin on Monday, state media
December 30, 2024
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev says the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally
December 29, 2024
The year 2024 saw President Vladimir Putin further cement his power as he sought to counter Russia's isolation over the war in Ukraine
December 29, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's leader for what the Kremlin called a "tragic incident"
December 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people
December 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is open to a Slovakian proposal to host peace talks with Ukraine to end a conflict he said Russia was determined to
December 27, 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to visit Moscow on Jan. 17 and sign a cooperation agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian state news agency RIA cited
December 26, 2024
‘Ordinary people with shovels’: Volunteers cleaning Black Sea oil spill ask Putin for help
December 24, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday blasted Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico over his reluctance to end his country's dependency on Russian gas, calling it a "
December 23, 2024
Volunteers helping to clean up a major oil spill along Russia's Black Sea coast appealed in a video released on Monday for President Vladimir Putin to urgently send
December 23, 2024
Russia said on Monday the situation with European countries that buy its gas through a transit deal via Ukraine was very complicated and needs more attention, a day after talks
December 23, 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Sunday, a rare visit by a European Union leader to Moscow as a contract allowing for Russian gas to
December 22, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
December 22, 2024
The Russian central bank kept its key interest rate on hold at 21% on Friday, surprising the market, which had expected a 2 percentage point
December 20, 2024
The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan
December 20, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the downfall of a key ally in Syria had dented Moscow’s prestige
December 19, 2024
Putin promises to ask Assad about whereabouts of American journalist Austin Tice
December 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S.
December 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to talk to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and said Russia was getting stronger.
December 19, 2024
The Russian economy is showing signs of overheating which is stoking worryingly high inflation, President Vladimir Putin said, expressing hope
December 19, 2024
U.S.
December 19, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia needed a long-lasting peace with Ukraine, not a temporary truce.
December 19, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
December 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the West of pushing Russia to its "red lines" - situations it has publicly made clear it will not tolerate - and said Moscow had
December 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin backs Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's efforts to achieve a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine and a
December 12, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would develop artificial intelligence with BRICS partners and other countries, in a bid to challenge the
December 11, 2024
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Moscow was not ready to make concessions when it came to Ukraine and that President Vladimir Putin's own proposals on how to end
December 11, 2024
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko says his country is hosting dozens of Russian nuclear weapons and will prepare facilities for the planned deployment of Moscow’s newest hypersonic ballistic missile
December 10, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the Ukraine war would continue until the goals set by President Vladimir Putin were achieved by military action or by negotiation.
December 10, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign intelligence chief said on Tuesday that Russia was close to achieving its goals in Ukraine with Moscow holding what he said was the
December 10, 2024
Five Ukrainian children sent away or placed in care since Moscow's February 2022 invasion returned to their homeland on Monday, officials said, part of a long-running campaign to bring
December 10, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said on
December 09, 2024
Assad’s fall is huge blow for Putin, highlighting fragility of his own rule
December 09, 2024A Russian attack on a military industrial facility in central Ukraine on Nov. 21 marked the first use of a powerful new weapon -– a hypersonic ballistic missile with multiple warheads
December 09, 2024
Donald Trump is pushing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to act to reach an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine
December 08, 2024
Two strategically-important Russian military facilities in Syria and Moscow's very presence in the Middle East are under serious threat from rapidly advancing insurgents,
December 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow could deploy its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missiles system in Belarus in the second half of 2025, Russian
December 06, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Khinshtein acting governor of southern Kursk region on Thursday, saying "crisis management" was needed in the area, which has been
December 05, 2024
By meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Russia’s Far East spaceport, President Vladimir Putin signaled his readiness to share rocket technology with Pyongyang
September 14, 2023
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers, hypersonic missiles and an advanced warship on a trip to Russia’s Far East that has sparked concerns about an arms alliance that could fuel President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine
September 15, 2023
An expert commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body says in her first report on Russia that the rights situation in the country has “significantly deteriorated” since President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine last February
September 18, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the government and central bank to coordinate their efforts to curb high inflation, saying on Wednesday that increasing the supply of
December 04, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called on the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, to help Russian companies
March 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in no position to make demands on Ukraine to end the war, U.S.
June 28, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his U.S counterpart Joe Biden accidentally referring to him as Russian President Vladimir Putin was a mistake that could be
July 13, 2024
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