Vladímir Putin

Kremlin troops advance on the front and win their biggest trophy since the capture of Bakhmut in March 2023

Thousands of individuals laid flowers at monuments to the victims of political repression throughout the country after the death of the well-known activist. The police have dispersed some of the spontaneous acts

Russian authorities have opened at least 883 criminal cases against dissidents since the start of the Ukraine invasion. The repression not only extends to the democratic opposition, but also to sectors favorable to the war but dissatisfied with the president and the military leadership

‘Let there be no doubt: Putin is responsible,’ Biden said. European leaders such as Von der Leyen, Macron and Scholz also pointed the finger at the Russian government

Civil unions may become more common among Orthodox countries gravitating toward the European Union. They remain off the table in Russia and countries in its orbit

On the same Munich stage where Putin delivered his famous 2007 speech announcing his rejection of the current world order, the dissident’s partner urged the international community to fight against the Russian regime

The details of what happened to President Vladimir Putin’s key political challenger, Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison colony on Friday, are unknown

The best-known opponent internationally of Vladimir Putin’s regime spent years uncovering corruption scandals among Russia’s elite

The Federal Prison Service said in a statement that Navalny felt unwell after a walk on Friday and lost consciousness

Washington downplays the threat: ‘We’re not talking about a weapon that can be used to attack human beings or cause physical destruction here on Earth’

Trump immediately sought to turn it in his favor at a campaign rally, hailing the statement as a ‘great compliment’

The urgently needed package has been held up by infighting in Congress. It was recently approved by the Senate but faces a deep uncertainty in the House of Representatives

The bill to assist the invaded country faces an uncertain future in the House of Representatives despite passing the Senate on Tuesday by a large majority

Estonia and fellow NATO members Latvia and Lithuania have pulled down monuments that are widely seen as an unwanted legacy of the Soviet occupation of those countries

France has called on Europe to prepare for the Republican populist’s possible returns to the White House

The strategic significance of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the friction between the U.S. and China and the possible return of Trump make for a high-risk horizon

The new commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is one of the most prestigious military leaders in the country, but less popular among the troops than his predecessor, Valerii Zaluzhnyi

His remarks appeared to align with Zelenskiy’s stated aim of bringing ‘renewal’ to the armed forces in Thursday’s shake-up and adopting a fresh approach to the fight

In his interview with the former Fox host, the Russian president said peace talks were ‘almost finalized’ in the early stages of the invasion but Ukraine ‘threw away all these agreements and obeyed the instructions of Western countries to fight Russia to the bitter end’

Special forces sent by Kyiv are conducting operations in the African country against rebel militias backed by Wagner mercenaries

Carlson received several rebukes by saying ‘not a single Western journalist has bothered to interview the president of the other country involved in this conflict’ at a time when two US reporters are imprisoned in Russia

The €50 billion agreed by EU leaders will allow Ukraine to resist on the front lines and support the public coffers, but Volodymyr Zelenskiy has stated that without U.S. support the war is lost

With most opposition politicians either in jail or in exile abroad president Vladimir Putin is almost certain to win his fifth term in office in the election

The seven band members were arrested last Thursday after playing a concert on the southern resort island of Phuket, reportedly for not having proper working papers