By Rebecca R. Ruiz and Jacob Judah President Vladimir V. Putin heightened his warnings against the West, asserting that Russia should be permitted to use nuclear arms in the event of an attack by ...

(Stringer/AFP via Getty Images) Vladimir Putin’s Russia is again rattling its nuclear sabre. On Sept. 1, it warned of a new nuclear doctrine to counter Western “escalation” in Ukraine.

Homicides, crimes causing intentional serious harm to health, and rape combined account for 1.4 percent of total registered offenses in Russia. Civil society groups pay special attention to the ...

Since Russia sent tens of thousands of soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022, the war has largely been a story of grinding artillery and drone strikes along a heavily fortified 1,000-km (620-mile ...

Moscow has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats after Vladimir Putin warned the West against allowing Ukraine to use long-range weapons to target Russia. The Russian president told ...

By Eric Schmitt The authorities are resorting to a politically unpopular move as they scramble to raise funds for the grueling military effort against Russia. By Constant Méheut A top-level ...

MOSCOW, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The death toll from an explosion at a petrol station in Dagestan in Russia's Caspian Sea region has risen to 13, including two children, the emergencies ministry said ...

Russia has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats and accused them of spying on Moscow, it emerged Friday, a fresh geopolitical escalation that was publicized in Russian state media ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Beyond the bombs and gunfire of Russia’s war in Ukraine, a parallel economic war is raging. Its front line is on occupied Ukrainian farmlands, from which Russia and its partners ...

Russia is piling pressure on Ukraine’s stretched front line in the east, setting up fierce battles for two cities that could bring it closer to achieving its current main military aim. Moscow ...

The US and UK are increasingly concerned that Russia is sharing with Iran secret information and technology that could bring it closer to being able to build nuclear weapons, in exchange for ...

The new staffing will come into effect in December, it said. Putin’s decree comes after Ukraine last month launched a lightning attack across the border on Russia’s southern Kursk region ...