The push for tax collection comes as Russia's growth has slowed to a near standstill nearly four years after its full-scale ...

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin will be forced to enter peace negotiations due to the further exhaustion of the Russian economy ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced the head of the country's security service as part of a top-level ...

Russia’s veteran foreign minister Sergei Lavrov sensationally claimed last week that Ukraine had fired a wave of drones at ...

The complex geopolitics of oil mean Maduro’s capture may have as big an impact in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Havana as in ...

An economic slowdown in Russia this year to 1% growth from 4.3% in 2024 was the result of conscious actions by the central bank to bring down the inflation rate, President Vladimir Putin said on ...

Syria's foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss expanding military ...

President Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as they continue to hammer out some of the basics of what could be ...

Meanwhile, Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s capital and elsewhere in the days before the Sunday meeting.

“The Kremlin’s strategic wager was clear: that an incoming Trump administration would force a peace deal on Kyiv and Europe’s ...

Vladimir Putin has used a new year‑end speech to cast 2026 as a turning point for Russia’s internal “unity” and economic ...

Last December, Putin boasted of the country’s admirable 4.3 per cent economic growth and an equally spectacular 8.5 per cent ...