STORY: Ukrainian Leniie Umerova is a member of the Crimean Tatar community indigenous to the Black Sea peninsula that was ...

When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last ...

This remarkable documentary was filmed at a high school in Karabash, a heavily polluted town in central southern Russia.

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

A court in Estonia says Russia's military intelligence service ordered an arson attack on a restaurant and supermarket there ...

This tradition started in 1828 when Russia won a war against Iran, then called Persia. In January, Russia and Iran signed a 20-year “special partnership” treaty. However there is no mutual defense ...

With the rise of a paramilitary force that analysts say is controlled by the Kremlin, Russia is openly expanding its state military footprint in Africa, after years of distancing itself from ...

As the Iran-Israel conflict continued in June 2025, claims that Iran's historic ally Russia withdrew support for the Islamic republic spread online. One X post (archived), which had more than 6.1 ...

In reality, NSR shipping activity continues to fall well short of Russia’s projections. Russia also counts on China as a crucial partner in developing its Arctic ambitions.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Wednesday to help mediate an end to the conflict between Israel and Iran, suggesting Moscow could help negotiate a ...

Russia places the number much higher—claiming 700,000. Moscow insists these aren’t abductions, though, but humanitarian efforts, offering children a reprieve from war.