Russian pensioner Olga Shkuratova trembled, clutching a scrap of paper bearing a handwritten phone number for her son. She had not spoken to him in the seven months that she was trapped by Ukraine's ...

Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the ...

The Russian Gymnastics Federation (RGF) announced on Thursday that a dozen athletes -seven women and five men- have been ...

Several Russian tanks adorned with Soviet-era red victory flags were destroyed by Ukrainian drones in Kursk, adding to increasing equipment losses.

Money tells stories. Not just of economic transactions but of cultural transformations, shifting identities, and geopolitical ...

In the epic US-Russian prisoner swap last summer, Vladimir Putin brought home an assassin, spies, and another prized ally: the man behind one of the biggest insider trading cases of all time.

The pause in deliveries of U.S. weapons coincides with signs that Russia will double down on longstanding efforts to exhaust ...

Origami cranes are also an international symbol for peace, hope and healing. In 2011, when a powerful earthquake hit Japan, ...

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and it is a symbol of the growing cooperation between Russia and Egypt. “This year, this place will become the largest nuclear reactor construction site on the planet – both in terms of area and the ...

Investigations into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election dominated the news for much of Donald Trump’s first term in office. Many allies now have been appointed to top jobs at ...

Bucha, a suburb of 37,000 about 20 miles northwest of the capital, Kyiv, has become a notorious symbol of Russian brutality ... 52 graves were marked only with numbers, like 230 and 318.