Javier G. Cuesta

Russia is offering discounts of up to $23 per barrel before the US president’s measures on its two major oil companies take effect

A photograph of a soldier with three dead bodies has sparked a bloody challenge between combatants on both sides

Russian president warns of costly repercussions after China also stops buying his country’s crude — and India may be next

Russia tells US and EU leaders that it is not interested in a ceasefire in Ukraine

Kim Jong-Un’s regime reaffirms its alliance with Russia through a major exhibition that portrays an idyllic image of the country and its involvement in the Ukrainian war

The Kremlin awards medals, positions, public appearances, and biopics to agents of its ‘illegal intelligence’ services that sow chaos in the West

Moscow is cracking down on complaints calling for the return of troops three years after the draft that shocked Russia

The military exercises being staged in Belarus, a repeat of those in 2021 that preceded the invasion of Ukraine, are taking place just two days after the Russian drone incursion into Poland

Complete control of the depressed industrial belt of eastern Ukraine, from which millions of Ukrainians have fled in the last decade, would offer a major victory to Putin and put Kyiv at risk of a new invasion

The Russian economic engine is showing clear signs of exhaustion — a reality the Kremlin is beginning to acknowledge. The military-driven boom of 2023 and 2024 is now in the past

Illegal activities incur costs of more than $19 trillion (more than China’s GDP), slow down growth and investments and accelerate inequality

The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church have persecuted dozens of clergy who called for peace. Ecclesiastical courts strip them of their guarantees

The second Istanbul meeting confirms that Moscow has no intention of stopping the war by making demands that imply Kyiv’s surrender

The Russian government is hosting over 100 delegations at a security forum that has become a weapons showcase

The UN and NGOs report that more than 120 dissidents are seriously ill in prison

The textbooks written by the head of the Russian delegation that negotiated with Ukraine in Istanbul last week extol the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries while minimizing the millions of victims

Moscow launches another controversial set of measures to try to stop the demographic decline, now worsened by war-related mortality

The warring nations ‘are on the right track,’ Vladimir Putin stated

The first direct negotiation between the two countries in the last three years concludes with slight progress

Michael Alexander Gloss, who was killed in combat in 2024, was the son of the head of digital innovation for the US intelligence service and had been in Putin’s army for a year

“We are on the right track,” declares Russian Foreign Sergey Minister Lavrov, who adds that there are still details to be resolved

The battalions of this unit are made up of veterans of the late Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary group who do not attempt to hide their rivalry with the Russian High Command

Residents of this city annexed by Moscow are calling for an end to the conflict but admit the difficulties of reaching an agreement

The Kremlin leader raises concerns over key issues, such as who would monitor the front and whether Kyiv would use the pause in hostilities to resupply its forces. ‘Hopefully they’ll do the right thing,' Trump said of the Russian authorities

Hawks denounce that the truce agreed upon by Washington and Kyiv will buy the enemy time. But Moscow does not want to lose touch with the US president and his new international order

The Kremlin will wait for Washington to inform it of the details of the meeting with Ukrainian representatives, while Russian forces recapture the main city in Kursk, a region partially occupied by Kyiv