Vladímir Putin

Kim is expected to seek economic aid and military technology for his impoverished country and has munitions Russia desperately needs

The former president is by far the strongest contender to become the Republican Party’s candidate in 2024 and repeatedly touted his relationship with the Russian leader while in the White House

Voting for Russia-installed legislatures began last week. Russian officials said the average turnout across Russia and the occupied Ukrainian regions was just over 43%

The Kremlin’s website said Kim’s visit is at the Russian president’s invitation and would take place ‘in the coming days.’ The West is concerned that the meeting will lead to a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine

The reclusive Asian country is estimated to have tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets to replenish the Russian army

The Russian invasion has destroyed buildings containing the paintings of Maria Primachenko and Polina Raiko. Today, the works of these folkloric artists are being displayed in various exhibitions, in an attempt to strengthen the national Ukrainian identity

The country’s Foreign Ministry said Monday the government had detected a network operating from Russia to recruit some of Cuba’s citizens living both in Russia and in Cuba to fight in Ukraine

Kim said the country is also pursuing a nuclear-propelled submarine and plans to remodel its existing submarines and surface vessels so that they could handle nuclear weapons

Each barrel of crude that the Kremlin sells is already clearly above the set threshold, but the U.S. and the other non-EU members of the G7 — Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom — are refusing to introduce changes

Beijing defends a decade of global benefits from the program, but critics warn of spiraling debt for developing countries

The anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin has set alarm bells ringing over Pyongyang supplying weapons to Moscow in return for nuclear know-how

U.S. officials also said Russia is trying to buy ammunition from North Korea for its war in Ukraine

The Russian president says the agreement that allowed Ukraine to export through the Black Sea won’t be restored until the West meets its obligations to facilitate Russian agricultural exports

The Ukrainian military warns that Moscow is replicating its strategy in Bakhmut to break the defenses of the strategic city while diverting forces from the counteroffensive in the south

There’s a weekly subject loosely translated as ‘Conversations about Important Things,’ which was introduced last year with the goal of boosting patriotism

Several Swedish lawmakers say they will boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies. Last year, the envoys of both countries were barred from attending because of Moscow’s war in Ukraine

The meeting comes just over six weeks after Moscow broke off an agreement partly brokered by Ankara that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets despite the 18-month war

Technology designed to detect nuclear tests thousands of miles away can capture explosions of all sorts — whether they are bombs, missiles or gunfire — in targeted cities

Life in Moscow presents a facade of normality despite sweeping sanctions tied to the war in Ukraine and the departure of hundreds of name-brand Western companies

The drones hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, causing a huge blaze and damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, the Russian state news agency Tass reported

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby points out that the letters were ‘more at the surface level’ but that talks on a weapons sale were advancing

The Kremlin said earlier that President Vladimir Putin wasn’t planning to attend the funeral

The lack of progress on the battlefield has resulted in pressure from the United States and anxiety in Ukrainian society, a year and a half after the Russian invasion

Conservative Alexander Schallenberg defends his country’s military neutrality in the Ukrainian war and expresses concern about the possibility of Moscow taking advantage of the loopholes left by the EU

Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement that forensic and genetic testing identified all 10 bodies recovered at the site of Wednesday’s crash

Officials said that Russia may try to retake the area, which was captured by Kyiv in a lightning counteroffensive last September