Russian President Vladimir Putin, the man who plunged Russia into a war that has proved far costlier than he anticipated, is riding high at the moment.
A rapper who was jailed and ordered to be conscripted into the Russia army after angering Vladimir Putin has fled to the US, according to reports from his friends
Vladimir Solovyov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, made the chilling comments on Russian TV as tensions between Moscow and NATO skyrocketed.
By presidential decree, lifelong mathematician and economist Andrei Removich Belousov stepped into the unenviable position as the top official presiding over Russia's war effort
Despite the Government's tough talk on sanctions, since the war began it has recruited an extra 100 civil servants to rubber stamp legal licences for rogue Russians looking to spend their seized millions.
Sanctions will target three companies and one individual, with the aim of closing down attempts to by Moscow and Pyongyang to circumvent sanctions on petroleum products.
Russian troops attacked the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv this week, with many experts fearing the war could be swinging in Vladimir Putin's favour.
Vladimir Putin's military has been doubling efforts to advance across eastern Ukraine while Kyiv waits for new US-supplied equipment to reach the front.
With Vladimir Putin visiting China, some reports had indicated that the Russian president would also make a stop in Vietnam. But Hanoi seems preoccupied by political infighting.
Underscoring the importance of Xi's support for the Kremlin, Putin headed to Beijing earlier this week in what was his first trip abroad since re-election and the second in six months to China
It was a display of unity that will disappoint Western leaders, who have spent the last few months trying to press home to Xi that his backing of Putin harms China’s own interests.
As Americans witness the spectacle of a grimacing Donald Trump, fidgeting nervously as he faces criminal charges in a Manhattan courtroom, an even more consequential drama continues to unfold some 5,000 miles away, where the Russian…
Body language expert Judi James suggested that despite efforts to display unity, visible tension marked the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing, China, on Thursday for extensive conversations with genocidal communist dictator Xi Jinping and his top officials focused on elevating economic and political ties.