Vladímir Putin

The Russian currency had passed 101 rubles to the dollar Monday, continuing a more than one-third decline in its value since the beginning of the year

The head of the Russian paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been meeting with representatives from Mali, the Central African Republic and Niger. The United States, meanwhile, is attempting to block the Wagner Group from profiting from African mines

Ukrainian authorities have ordered a mandatory evacuation of nearly 12,000 civilians from 37 towns and villages in the Kupiansk district of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region

The Center for Civil Liberties has documented 4,000 people arrested during the invasion, a number the Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, puts as high as 20,000

That charge Tuesday came as the death toll from two Russian missile strikes that slammed into the downtown area of a Ukrainian city climbed to seven

Russian bombs reduced the House of Culture — located in the east of the country — to rubble. Shortly before the attack, a literary festival filled with hope had begun. Its organizer was killed a few weeks later

The destabilization in the African region poses a higher threat of jihadist terrorism and increased flows of migrants to Europe

Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative puts the Ukrainian agricultural sector on the ropes. The crops are piling up in the silos that Moscow bombs, while the price of transporting goods by land has multiplied

Officials from each side denounce devious plots being prepared by the enemy, which never materialize. They claim victories that can’t be confirmed and stay quiet about defeats

The Russian singer claims the Met caused ‘severe mental anguish and emotional distress’ after it severed ties with her

The capital of western Ukraine, a short distance from NATO territory, is still reeling from the July 6 air strike, which killed 10 people and wounded 48

Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year term on a variety of charges that he says were politically motivated, is President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe

The intellectual movement of the late 19th century influenced the Soviet space race and contemporary transhumanists in Silicon Valley

A United Nations report last month warned of such resistance as young populations in Africa press for rapid change and new international partners

Moscow has hammered the country’s ports with strikes since halting a deal that allowed Ukrainian shipments to world markets through the city of Odesa

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia accuse Belarus, an ally of Russia, of encouraging the migration in an act of ‘hybrid warfare’ aimed at creating instability in the West

For both Vladimir Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, backing off Crimea is hardly an option

The Ukrainian president said the dead included a 10-year-old girl and her mother. The attack left 75 people wounded

The latest model of the attack aircraft, which has been deployed amid heavy fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region, has been upgraded with weapons capable of evading anti-missile defenses

EL PAÍS visits the network of medical stations that mark out the Zaporizhzhia front, where hundreds of wounded soldiers are operated on every day

The meeting will be held in August, and Moscow is not invited to participate

President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the termination of the grain deal earlier this month caused a rise in grain prices that benefits Russian companies, and added that Moscow would share some of those revenues with the ‘poorest nations’

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a law moving the holiday, citing ‘the desire of all Ukrainians to live their lives with their own tradition’

EL PAÍS accompanied the 35th Ukrainian Marine Artillery Brigade, shortly before its soldiers retook the town on the southern front of the Donetsk province

The declared deployment of the weapons onto the territory of its neighbor and loyal ally marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s nuclear saber-rattling over its invasion of Ukraine