The announcement of Sergei Shoigu’s new role came as 13 people were reported dead and 20 more wounded in Russia’s border city of Belgorod where a section of a residential building collapsed
A BBC documentary about the Roman dictator shows how his excessive ambition for power ultimately overthrew a republican system. The film also draws parallels between him and current forms of populism
‘Russia is now going through a difficult, milestone period, the fate of the Motherland, its future, depends on each of us,’ the president told his troops
The nation’s leaders do not want an end to the conflict in Ukraine, understood as compromise, but rather a victory, understood as the imposition of their own agenda
Kyiv’s state security service says that two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal Security Service
The Kremlin said any discussion of deploying NATO troops in Ukraine represented ‘a completely new round of escalation of tension; it is unprecedented, and of course it requires special attention and special measures’
Three reporters have been arrested in three days, accused of discrediting the Russian army and association with the organization of deceased dissident Alexei Navalny
With Russia lurking and diplomatic channels failing, Washington is preparing to redeploy its troops from Nigerien soil while pressure from the Chadian army threatens to end its operations
The U.S. secretary of state ended his trip with a meeting with the Chinese president, who said the two countries should be ‘partners rather than rivals’
Several studies have found that nationalism is growing among millennials and Gen Z in countries such as Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, which show waning support for the EU and NATO
The 47th Brigade has had four commanders in one year. Soldiers and officers talk to EL PAÍS about the force’s weaknesses, which is key to understanding Russia’s advance on the front
Russia’s minister of culture has announced plans to bring back this contest, which has intermittently brought musicians from the other side of the Iron Curtain (and some from this side) together to compete since the 1960s
EL PAÍS has compiled a list of words, places, people and acronyms that can help us understand a time of turbulent change, amidst the strain unleashed by geostrategic forces
The second season of the Netflix documentary focuses on the atomic bomb and the Cold War, and how those events are linked to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
The invader has gained ground with the city of Chasiv Yar as their main objective, ahead of an expected summer offensive to take Kramatorsk, which would effectively mean Kyiv’s loss of the province
Over the course of several years, the Russian journalist attended arms fairs around the world, creating a photobook. His publication offers a bizarre look at the disturbingly real, dark and prosperous business of war
The Cuban government and the Kremlin reject the information published by the independent Russian media ‘The Insider’ in collaboration with Germany’s ‘Der Spiegel’ and the American TV news program ‘60 Minutes’