A simmering battle for influence within Vladimir Putin’s inner circle has led to the abrupt ouster of a top official responsible for protecting the nation’s finances. Sergei Alpatov, head of the Federal Security Service’s Economic Security Service,

In rare public remarks, Jonathan Powell said now was not the time for European nations to take their "foot off the gas".

Russia says battlefield performance against Western weapons is driving $13bn in new arms deals. Can Moscow actually deliver?

Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine isn’t going as well as he says it is. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysts have blasted holes in Putin’s claims of Russian victories, pointing particularly to a Ukrainian counterattack that was purposely kept under wraps for months.

The war has become a ruinous contest of drone and missile attacks that, while devastating to Ukraine, are inflicting visible damage on Russia too. But Mr Putin shows no sign of backing off. The worry is that he may try to escape from what Russians call a tupik (dead-end) as he has in the past: by finding some new way to escalate the conflict.

Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, plan to visit Kyiv next, in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has linked the strong performance of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the recent state election in Saxony-Anhalt to mistakes by Western countries.

When things get dicey in Moscow, Vladimir Putin tends to drop out of sight for a while, retreating to one of his residences and canceling public events. Only his closest aides know how he spends his time during these absences, which can go on for days even ...

NEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) - India said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to further strengthen the special relationship between their countries in talks that ranged over areas including energy and defence.

President Donald Trump in Dallas and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, both on Wednesday. (Photos by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Mikhail Metzel/POOL/AFP/Getty Images) There is no moral comparison between Ukraine and Iran: The former is a liberal ...