Russian President Vladimir Putin is concluding a two-day visit to China by emphasizing the countries' strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they seek to present an alternative to U.S. global influence
May 17, 2024
After sealing pledges of a "new era" of strategic partnership with China's Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday is set to highlight the growing
July 02, 2024
A vaunted 'new era' of strategic partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Xi Jinping begun in Beijing on Thursday may not exactly have been sealed
July 02, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russian forces advancing in Ukraine's northeast were carving out a buffer zone to protect Russia from attacks and
June 03, 2024
Russia could deliver oil as well as gas to China along a planned route via Mongolia, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
June 03, 2024
At least 11 people were reported killed in attacks in Ukraine’s war-ravaged northeast on Sunday, as Russia pushed ahead with its renewed offensive
May 19, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that exercises involving non-strategic nuclear weapons that President Vladimir Putin has ordered would be held "in the relevant timeframes" and that this
June 04, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin phoned Iran's new interim president on Monday as Moscow made clear its desire to preserve and build on its deepening relationship with Tehran
June 04, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Monday appointed former deputy economy minister Oleg Savelyev as a deputy defence minister, according to a published decree, in a further sign of his
June 04, 2024
A senior ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin attended commemorations in Tehran for the late President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday and passed on a message of support for the
June 06, 2024The Kremlin said on Thursday said President Vladimir Putin had not had any contact with Donald Trump, after the former U.S. president said he would use his ties with Putin to get
June 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield
June 10, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had no legitimacy following the expiry of his five-year term and this would raise a legal
June 11, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin, making his third foreign trip since his re-election in March, arrived in ex-Soviet Uzbekistan on Sunday and met with his counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev
June 11, 2024
A Zurich court is on Monday hearing an appeal by bankers convicted last year of failing to perform due diligence in financial transactions after
June 12, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine
July 02, 2024
Natalia Komarova, the governor of Siberia's oil-rich Khanty-Mansiisk region who was last year criticised for remarks she made about the war in Ukraine, announced on Thursday that she
June 14, 2024Allies of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and wealthy oligarchs should
June 15, 2024
President Vladimir Putin is warning that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets elsewhere in the world in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to launch attacks on Russian territory
June 05, 2024
President Vladimir Putin, asked about the risks of nuclear war over Ukraine, cautioned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use all available means to defend
June 22, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia did not care who the next U.S. president was, as this would probably not
June 21, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says France will provide Ukraine with its Mirage combat aircraft to be able to defend their country against Russian aggression
June 06, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Western nations supplying Ukraine with weapons to strike Russian territory will have to reckon with Russia,
June 24, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he could deploy conventional missiles within striking distance of the United
June 23, 2024
President Vladimir Putin says that he sees no current threat to Russia’s sovereignty that would warrant the use of nuclear weapons but has again warned that Moscow could send arms to countries or groups to strike Western targets
June 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and to begin negotiations if Kyiv started withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO
June 14, 2024
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
June 28, 2024
Ukraine dismissed ceasefire conditions announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday as "absurd", saying he was trying to mislead world powers and undermine
June 28, 2024
The ceasefire offer from Russian President Vladimir Putin is an ultimatum which cannot be trusted, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
June 28, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that plans by Western countries to provide Ukraine with loans using interest from Russian assets frozen abroad was theft and would not go
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin sacked four deputy defence ministers on Monday and appointed a relative to fill one of the resulting vacancies.
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on Tuesday and Wednesday for the first time in 24 years, the two countries said,
June 28, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea on Wednesday for his first visit in 24 years, vowing to deepen trade
July 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un took turns to drive each other around in a Russian-built Aurus limousine on Wednesday after the Kremlin
July 02, 2024
A strategic partnership pact signed by the leaders of Russia and North Korea on Wednesday includes a mutual defence clause under which each country agrees to help the other repel
July 01, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a visit to Vietnam on Thursday that Russia was keen to partner with the southeast Asian country in energy and security.
July 02, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the NATO military alliance of creating a security threat for Russia and other nations in Asia.
July 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia might supply weapons to North Korea in what he suggested would be a mirror response to the
July 02, 2024
The imagery from Pyongyang emerged quickly this week and was notable in its variety
June 20, 2024
Russia offered to help Vietnam develop nuclear power plants during President Vladimir Putin's trip to Hanoi, Alexei Likhachev, head of the Russian state nuclear firm Rosatom told RIA
June 23, 2024
Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, has started updating its nuclear doctrine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, citing an earlier statement by President
July 03, 2024
The International Criminal Court says it has issued arrest warrants for Russia’s former defense minister and its military chief of staff for attacks on Ukraine’s power plants
June 25, 2024
(This June 25 story has been corrected to change the total number of arrest warrants issued by ICC over Ukraine to six, instead of eight, in paragraph 2) By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters)
June 25, 2024
Four bankers who helped a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin move millions of francs through Swiss bank accounts have lost their attempt to overturn
July 03, 2024
Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv
June 29, 2024
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, said on Monday she would use a new role as chair of the U.S.-based Human Rights
July 01, 2024
An exiled Russian journalist accused the authorities on Wednesday of breaking new legal ground to intimidate their critics after a court labelled him and his wife
July 03, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday, Radio Free Europe and the Financial Times reported on
July 04, 2024
NATO was informed of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's trip to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in advance, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday.
July 05, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin's message to NATO was simple and stark: Don’t go too far in providing military support for Ukraine, or you’ll risk a conflict that could quickly turn into a nuclear one
July 06, 2024
It boasts a replica of the 'Tsar Bomba', the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, slick presentation stands extolling the virtues of four Ukrainian regions
July 09, 2024
Opinion: Ukraine deserves to hear the truth about NATO
July 09, 2024Russia's finance ministry on Wednesday said it had extended a subsidised mortgage programme for families until 2030 following an order from President Vladimir Putin.
July 10, 2024
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday denounced NATO's summit promise to grant eventual membership to Ukraine and said Russia should work towards the "disappearance"
July 11, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he has no reason to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin right now unless the Russian leader changes his behavior.
July 11, 2024
Over the past decade, Russia has seen a sharp increase in treason and espionage cases
July 14, 2024A Russian military delegation is in North Korea to work on implementing agreements reached during President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to Pyongyang, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
July 19, 2024
Signing an agreement with Russia to stop the war with Ukraine would amount to signing a deal with the devil
July 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned the United States that if Washington deployed long-range missiles in Germany then Russia
July 28, 2024
In a blunt signal to discourage the West from increasing military support for Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin says Russia could revise its nuclear doctrine regarding the use of its atomic arsenal
July 30, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin doubled upfront payments for volunteers to fight in Ukraine on Wednesday, a move aimed at facilitating military recruitment but likely to create
July 31, 2024
Who was freed in major prisoner swap between Russia and the West?
August 01, 2024
In the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending a clear, morale-boosting message to his security services: If you get caught, Russia will bring you home
August 03, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered humanitarian aid to North Korea, which has been hit by heavy rainfalls and floods, Pyongyang's state media KCNA said on
August 03, 2024
The director of a park showcasing Russia's military might was arrested on fraud charges, along with a top Defense Ministry official, part of a sweeping investigation into abuse of office in the top echelons of the military leadership
August 05, 2024
Russia's President Vladimir Putin will discuss the situation in the Middle East with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow on Tuesday, the Kremlin said late on Monday.
August 13, 2024An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had helped to plan
August 16, 2024
Civilians with small children in their arms and lugging heavy suitcases are fleeing Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, where the Russian army is bearing down fast despite a lightning Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region
August 19, 2024
Modi to visit Ukraine, weeks after Kyiv condemned Indian PM for hugging Putin in Moscow
August 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday inspected Chechen troops and volunteers readying to fight Ukraine, the Kremlin said, in what was Putin's first
August 20, 2024
Ukraine's rapid military offensive into Russia's Kursk region seems to have caught Moscow unprepared
August 21, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese premier Li Qiang in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.
August 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he backed an early, peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict,
August 27, 2024
Russian news reports say a former Defense Ministry official has been detained in a fraud case, the latest high-profile arrest of a senior military official
August 29, 2024
Russian forces are advancing faster in eastern Ukraine than they have done for a long time, taking several square kilometres per day, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday as
September 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that young members of his family speak fluent Mandarin, though he told school children they should not forget the importance of
September 02, 2024
A senior Russian military commander has been detained in a fraud case
September 02, 2024The Kremlin said on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had arrived for a state visit in Mongolia, which lies on the route of a planned new gas pipeline connecting Russia
September 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin received a red carpet welcome on Tuesday on a state visit to Mongolia, whose failure to arrest him under a warrant from the International Criminal Court was
September 03, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that China, India and Brazil could act as mediators in potential peace talks over Ukraine.
September 05, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he did not understand France's actions against Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who was placed under formal investigation
September 05, 2024
President Vladimir Putin is not currently interested in granting an interview to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was freed from Russian prison last month, nor
September 09, 2024
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it did not like the way Vladimir Putin's name was bandied around in the U.S. presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, and urged the
September 11, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that he and International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan had discussed how to ensure that arrest warrants for Russian officials
September 12, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has delivered a clear message to the West about the consequences it will face if it allows Ukraine to hit Russian territory with Western long-range missiles
September 13, 2024
President Vladimir Putin's proposal to restrict exports of Russian metals is an invitation for officials to think about it and there are no concrete measures yet, Kremlin spokesman
September 13, 2024
Splits in Russia's opposition in exile have widened sharply, shifting their focus from political activism to infighting after allies of late
September 13, 2024
Vladimir Putin's options to retaliate if the West lets Ukraine use its long-range missiles to strike Russia could include striking British military assets near Russia or, in
September 13, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was ramping up drone production by around ten times to nearly 1.4 million this year in a bid to ensure the Russian armed forces
September 19, 2024
Western governments and Russia's exiled opposition should begin laying the groundwork for Russia's democratic transition after President Vladimir Putin
September 20, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he said Moscow was supporting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November's U.S. presidential election, Foreign Minister Sergei
September 21, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that people should re-listen to a warning issued by President Vladimir Putin who said the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed
September 24, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that changes to Russia's nuclear weapons doctrine outlined by President Vladimir Putin should be considered a signal to Western countries that there will
September 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has drawn a "red line" for the United States and its allies by signalling that Moscow will consider responding with
September 27, 2024
The head of an election monitoring group that has monitored the fairness of Russian elections in the past went on trial in Moscow on Friday, accused of cooperating with an "
September 27, 2024
The Kremlin said on Sunday that amendments to Russia's nuclear doctrine had been prepared and were about to be formalised, meaning the relevant documents setting out the
September 29, 2024
President Vladimir Putin was hailed a 'tsar' on his 72nd birthday on Monday by some supporters who said the former KGB spy had raised Russia up from its knees
October 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not willing to speak with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the topic of brokering peace in Ukraine, Germany's foreign minister said on Friday.
October 11, 2024
Changes announced by Russia to its nuclear weapons policy were long overdue and will probably "cool the ardour" of its Western enemies, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said in an
October 13, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will host a summit of BRICS leaders next week, seeking support in his standoff with the West from the expanded group that now represents about a
October 16, 2024
Laws that would ban "propaganda" which discourages Russians from having children won overwhelming approval on Thursday in the first stage of their passage through
October 17, 2024
This year has seen President Vladimir Putin repeatedly brandish the nuclear sword, reminding everyone that Russia has the world’s largest atomic arsenal in order to deter the West from ramping up support for Ukraine
October 18, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would not let Ukraine get nuclear weapons, after Ukraine's leader said that since Kyiv had given up its Soviet-era nuclear
October 18, 2024
President Vladimir Putin told the visiting president of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday that relations between the two states amounted to a "strategic partnership" and thanked him for
October 20, 2024
Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that she would one day return to Russia and run for president when Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin is
October 21, 2024
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday that he was ready to support efforts to find peace in Ukraine.
October 21, 2024
In his posthumous memoir “Patriot,” Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tracks the boredom, isolation, exhaustion, suffering and absurdity of prison life, while commenting on everything from French literature to Billie Eilish
October 22, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Middle East was on the brink of a full-scale war as tensions rose sharply between Israel and Iran.
October 24, 2024
A panel of judges at the International Criminal Court has reported Mongolia to the court’s oversight organization for failing to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin when he visited the Asian nation last month
October 24, 2024Cross-border payments for trade between BRICS countries are experiencing problems, but there are no plans to create a special system because the existing infrastructure is
October 24, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, had proposed reviving contacts on Black Sea shipping but
October 25, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that it was Russia's business whether or not it decided to use North Korean troops and said that if Ukraine wanted to join NATO then Moscow
October 25, 2024
Russia said on Tuesday it had taken two eastern Ukrainian towns and open-source data indicated that Moscow's forces were advancing at their fastest pace in at
October 29, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring a simulation of a retaliatory strike
October 29, 2024
The U.S. presidential election on Tuesday carries significant stakes for the Kremlin
October 30, 2024
Putin’s latest election meddling effort failed. It’s unlikely to stop him trying again
November 04, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin says Trump is ‘intelligent and experienced,’ capable of finding ‘solutions’
November 28, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would use all weapons at its disposal against Ukraine if Kyiv were to acquire nuclear arms.
November 28, 2024
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday, a day after Donald Trump became U.S. president-elect, that the West should accept Russia was
November 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. election, praised him for showing
November 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin described China on Thursday as Russia's ally and threw his weight behind Beijing's claims over Taiwan, while stating that no countries had
November 07, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Ukraine should remain neutral for there to be a chance for peace, adding that the borders of Ukraine should be in accordance
November 07, 2024
President Vladimir Putin is ready to discuss Ukraine with Donald Trump but that does not mean he is willing to alter Moscow's demands, the Kremlin said on Friday.
November 08, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a treaty on the country's strategic partnership with North Korea which includes a mutual defence provision, according to a decree published
November 09, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte called on Western allies to provide further support to Ukraine “to change the trajectory of the conflict.”
November 12, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "strategic mistake" that weakened European unity in the face of Moscow's war
November 18, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday he would not be deterred from supporting Ukraine by "irresponsible" Russian rhetoric, after Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered the
November 19, 2024
A group of Russian doctors has appealed to President Vladimir Putin over the "shameful" jailing of a Moscow paediatrician for comments she was alleged to have
November 20, 2024
Russia transferred more than 70 animals, including an African lion and two brown bears, to a zoo in the North Korean capital Pyongyang from Moscow's zoo, the Russian government said
November 20, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said Russia had struck Ukraine with a new hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile in response to Kyiv's use of U.S. and British missiles against Russia.
November 22, 2024
A Russian man has gone on trial on charges of high treason for a video he had allegedly sent to Ukraine’s security services
November 14, 2024
Prominent Russian opposition figures are leading a march of more than 1,000 people in central Berlin
November 17, 2024
Russia will keep testing new ballistic missile, Putin says
November 23, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal
November 23, 2024
A Russian man has been convicted of treason and sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of high treason for a video he sent to Ukraine’s security services
November 25, 2024
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