Russian President Vladimir Putin promoted Finance Minister Anton Siluanov in a surprise cabinet reshuffle on Monday aimed at maintaining macroeconomic
October 19, 2026Ukraine and Russia should be focused on ending the war between them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on his visit to
October 19, 2026The day after waiving sanctions and tariffs related to Russian exports, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he has yet to announce a final
October 18, 2026Russia is establishing a "security zone" inside Ukraine along their border, which will be non-negotiable in any future talks with Kyiv, President Vladimir Putin said on
October 16, 2026President Vladimir Putin told Pope Leo he had agreed to cooperate after the pontiff asked him on Friday to help get vital supplies into the Russian-
October 16, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin told Pope Leo in a phone call on Friday that he supported a Vatican initiative to help deliver supplies to civilians in the Russian-
October 16, 2026Russia has publicly acknowledged a Ukrainian drone strike on a major oil refinery this week and broadcast images on state media, breaking with its usual practice in order to
October 16, 2026Russia has seized control of the local assets of four companies from France, Germany, Sweden and Belgium, according to a decree by President Vladimir Putin,
October 16, 2026Drone attacks on cargo ships in the Black Sea this month have raised concerns among NATO members
October 16, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss cybersecurity with top officials on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, describing it as an increasingly pressing issue but denying
October 14, 2026The deal between the United States and Russia over diesel supply is a "very risky choice" that runs counter to efforts to force Vladimir Putin to sit at a
October 14, 2026Trump admin silent as Russia hits American businesses with ‘drones and missiles’ in Ukraine
October 14, 2026Trump suggests Russia and Ukraine did not agree to his ‘energy ceasefire’ before he announced it
October 11, 2026President Donald Trump said on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," even as US
October 13, 2026Stocks kicked off a busy week with mixed trading on Wall Street that kept the market hovering around its all-time high set last week
October 12, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is still striking Ukraine's energy facilities despite U.S. President Donald Trump's claim of an energy ceasefire
October 12, 2026A deal between Moscow and Washington over exports of Russian diesel and fresh U.S. criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mark important political victories for the Kremlin
October 12, 2026NATO's top commander warned Russia on Monday that his forces would destroy "anything and everything" involved in any attack if
October 12, 2026US threatens to suspend intel sharing, weapons purchases if Ukraine continues Russia energy strikes, sources say
October 12, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday in response to critical comments from US President Donald Trump that he will organize elections in Ukraine if
October 11, 2026Former President Donald Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader, suggesting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hasn't done enough to end the war with Russia
October 10, 2026A conversation on Friday between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was "very substantive and friendly" and neither leader wanted to be the first to end the call
October 10, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump on Friday that Kyiv had undermined the possibility of an immediate resumption of trilateral Ukraine peace
October 10, 2026South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize on Friday, has been a judge on several international courts,
October 09, 2026A powerful Russian guided bomb explosion has killed 30 people and wounded at least 18 in eastern Ukraine, according to authorities
October 08, 2026European intelligence services are trying to find out whether secret information was compromised by former German spy chief August Hanning and
October 08, 2026Russian authorities are keeping a tight lid on information about last week’s suspicious death of a lab worker in Siberia that has been surrounded by secrecy and claims that it could have been caused by pneumonic plague
October 07, 2026Russia fired 70 missiles and also drones in one of its biggest strikes at Ukraine, targeting the Ukrainian energy sector and killing at least 11 people across the country,
October 07, 2026North Korea criticised the United States over its arms sales and military support for Taiwan, accusing Washington of fuelling tension in the Taiwan Strait, state
October 07, 2026US President Donald Trump on Monday at the White House told reporters that the United States will help Russia after a laboratory worker died at a plague research
October 06, 2026Ukraine said long-range strikes have put more than half of Russia’s oil refining capacity out of action
October 05, 2026Milorad Dodik has declared victory for his party in Bosnia's election, which was influenced by economic pressures, EU membership prospects, and ethnic tensions
October 04, 2026Ukraine will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow designed to force people to
October 03, 2026Putin warns Russia is prepared to use ‘all weapons,’ including nuclear, to protect Kaliningrad
October 02, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Western companies could get their Russian assets back if "a favourable scenario" came to pass.
October 01, 2026Russia will expel an unspecified number of Hungarian diplomats in a retaliatory move, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, after Budapest last month expelled 10
October 01, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin believes his meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at an APEC summit in China next month will yield results and benefit ties, Russian news
October 01, 2026NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday there was no imminent threat to NATO territory from Russia, in response to a warning issued by Moscow over the
September 30, 2026Ihor Malchevsky focused solely on his family as he peered over the edge of his third-floor office window, thick black smoke billowing behind him after a
September 29, 2026Russia's imperialism is the greatest threat to Europe and to question that is irresponsible, Germany's foreign minister said on Tuesday in Slovakia, where the prime minister has
September 29, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev held "constructive" talks with US officials on ending the Ukraine war, including possible US-Russia energy
September 29, 2026Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday he had agreed with Russia's Vladimir Putin that Gazprom would take part in a project to build a nitrogen
September 29, 2026This month's victories for far-right and far-left parties in German state elections have intensified official debate over whether security authorities can
September 28, 2026Trump declines to say if Ukraine can manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks
September 26, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that all proposals for a settlement in the 4-1/2-year-old war with Ukraine remained on the table, but Moscow still needed to
September 25, 2026Final results of Russia's first wartime parliamentary election show that the Kremlin has further cemented its political control of the country
September 25, 2026Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart met on Thursday and Moscow said both agreed that only a diplomatic settlement could end tension in the Middle
September 25, 2026NATO is stepping up intelligence-sharing in response to a wave of sabotage and other incidents apparently linked to Russia but should be "calm and confident" that
September 24, 2026Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging world’s leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts
September 24, 2026President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Moscow at the United Nations on Wednesday that Ukraine would strike back
September 23, 2026President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that high turnout in last weekend's parliamentary election showed that Russians support their armed forces fighting in Ukraine
September 23, 2026President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election, which further strengthened the Kremlin’s already-overwhelming legislative control, was a sign of public support for his policies
September 23, 2026The Kremlin said on Wednesday ahead of a planned meeting in New York between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that there were
September 23, 2026NATO's deputy commander in Europe is warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is becoming increasingly reckless as the war in Ukraine drags on and as he seeks to divide Western allies
September 23, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning a new major attack on his country, in comments published on Tuesday.
September 23, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.N. General Assembly in New York and expressed hope that the U.S. would help to end Russia's war in Ukraine
September 22, 2026A Czech man who staged a solo protest on Moscow's Red Square against Russia's war in Ukraine has been fined and sentenced to 13 days in custody, a court said on Tuesday.
September 22, 2026The Kremlin said on Tuesday it welcomed the fact that Germany's far-right AfD party wants dialogue with Moscow, contrasting that with what it called the confrontational
September 22, 2026European Union envoys will try again on Tuesday to reach a deal that could lift sanctions on Russia-linked billionaires Alisher
September 21, 2026Papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi plans to visit Russia in late September, the RIA state news agency quoted him as saying on Monday.
September 21, 2026Russian drones have hit Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said
September 21, 2026Election officials say the Kremlin's main party has retained its majority in Russia’s parliament
September 21, 2026The pro-Putin ruling United Russia party won a record number of seats in the national parliament, according to near-complete
September 21, 2026Russia's ruling United Russia party easily won a parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a test of support for the war in Ukraine, the Central
September 21, 2026Ruling pro-Putin party set to win Russia’s tightly controlled wartime parliamentary election
September 21, 2026Early results from Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election, released by the country’s election commission, show the main Kremlin party dominating the vote
September 20, 2026Russia's ruling United Russia party was on track to easily win a parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a
September 20, 2026Russian officials say Ukrainian forces launched over 1,000 drones at Russia, including hundreds targeting Moscow
September 20, 2026Russians living abroad cast their votes on Sunday, the final day of a parliamentary election, in what many described as a moral duty, if ultimately a futile act of
September 20, 2026Russia’s liberal opposition Yabloko party says that one of its election observers lost consciousness while being arrested by police at a St. Petersburg polling station
September 19, 2026A former Russian federal official has been elected president of South Ossetia, a Russia-backed breakaway region of Georgia, in a vote Moscow hailed on
September 19, 2026NHL top star facing backlash after supporting Putin’s party in Russian elections
September 19, 2026Russian authorities reported attacks on voting systems and communication lines across the country on Saturday, the second day of a September 18-20 parliamentary election
September 19, 2026Russia's parliamentary election has triggered a diplomatic row with Moldova over its objections to the Kremlin's plan to open 15 polling stations for Russian nationals in
September 19, 2026President Donald Trump is defending his son's wedding party being partially funded by a Russian oligarch
September 19, 2026President Donald Trump has signed a major sanctions package targeting Russian officials and key sectors of its economy
September 19, 2026Russians have begun three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election
September 18, 2026The pro-Putin ruling United Russia party retained its decisive majority in the national parliament, near-complete election results showed on Monday, in a
September 18, 2026Russians began voting on Friday in a three-day parliamentary election which President Vladimir Putin has said will show that millions of people back his
September 18, 2026Empty podiums, prizes for e-voting, no opposition: Russians head to the polls amid intensifying war in Ukraine
September 18, 2026Voting has begun in Russia’s parliamentary election with the main Kremlin party poised to retain its overwhelming grip on the lower house
September 17, 2026Alex Ovechkin says he’s “for peace and love” after the Russian hockey star appeared in an ad for a party aligned with Vladimir Putin
September 17, 2026The House has passed a broad package of sanctions targeting Russian officials and key pillars of its economy as lawmakers look to deprive President Vladimir Putin of the financial resources needed to wage the war against Ukraine
September 16, 2026President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday framed participation in an upcoming parliamentary election as a barometer of support for Russia's war in Ukraine and urged Russians to
September 16, 2026As a digital billboard behind her displays an advert urging Russians to sign up to fight in Ukraine, Polina Lermant tries to hand out flyers to passers-by urging them to "
September 16, 2026Democrats in the U.S.
September 16, 2026After Alex Ovechkin appeared in an ad for Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, the Washington Capitals said their long-time captain was asked to participate while back in his home country this summer
September 15, 2026Russian strikes have killed eight civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, according to local officials
September 12, 2026The House is expected to take up a punishing Russian sanctions package next week, though prospects of passage are uncertain despite the overwhelming support the bill received in the Senate
September 12, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have held talks before a BRICS summit in New Delhi
September 11, 2026Britain's Prime Minister Andy Burnham spoke with U.S.
September 07, 2026The Kremlin said on Monday that it did not rule out the resumption of peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, but said it was too early to say when and
September 07, 2026Witkoff confident of ‘good resolution’ after Kyiv meeting, as US pushes for trilateral talks with Russia
September 06, 2026U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner say they have held encouraging talks in Kyiv
September 06, 2026Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Sunday that Moscow has not ruled out a trilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia, the U.S. and China, state
September 06, 2026Witkoff and Kushner to take US peace push to Kyiv after meeting Putin in Moscow
September 05, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin held more than three hours of "highly useful" talks on Saturday with two U.S. envoys seeking a deal to
September 05, 2026Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. special representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Saturday that contacts between Moscow and Washington were always
September 05, 2026Plans for two U.S. peace envoys to visit Russia and Ukraine this weekend have yet to be finalised because of U.S. security concerns, a source familiar with the situation
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