Russia’s ruling United Russia party is on course for a sweeping victory in the country’s first parliamentary election since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, according to preliminary results, in
European Union leaders are exploring ways to lend tens of billions of euros to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets, as support from Washington diminishes and Kyiv faces potential funding shortages early next
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Russia said President Vladimir Putin has accepted some elements of recent U.S. proposals aimed at ending the war in Ukraine while rejecting others, according to reporting from Reuters. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
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Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia is “ready” for a potential war with Europe as the United States prepares to deliver Ukraine’s latest peace proposal in Moscow on Tuesday. The message
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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday that Western Europe has effectively removed itself from the negotiations over the Ukraine crisis, blaming European actions for undermining past peace efforts, Reuters reported.
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When President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Moscow this week for high-stakes negotiations, he is expected to receive a cordial reception, though Russia is showing little appetite for compromise. According to
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President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held an unannounced meeting at the Kremlin on Friday to discuss the future of several sanctioned Russian-owned refineries that have fueled growing concerns
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A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft launched to the International Space Station on Thursday, carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut, a live stream of the event showed. The Soyuz 2.1a rocket
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Steve Witkoff, fresh from the success of the Gaza peace agreement, held a brief phone call last month with Yuri Ushakov, President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy adviser, to explore options for
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Ukraine is grappling with a severe manpower crisis as four out of every five draftees reportedly flee military training centres, a senior MP in Kyiv has warned, leaving the country struggling to
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India before the end of 2025, the Kremlin has confirmed, in what officials describe as a “meaningful” and strategically significant trip. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced
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Norway is in talks to help unlock a proposed European war loan worth more than €100 billion for Ukraine by offering its sovereign wealth fund — the largest in the world —
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In a landmark event last Sunday, Romania unveiled its National Cathedral in Bucharest, now the tallest Orthodox church in the world, surpassing St. Petersburg’s Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, which held the
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Russia’s President Putin should read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and ponder the famous statement that “it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Putin’s problem is that he is
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Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin hailed as capable of bypassing any existing or future missile defense systems. The announcement, made Sunday alongside a
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China and India have suspended significant imports of Russian oil after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions targeting Moscow’s primary sources of revenue. The sanctions, aimed at Russia’s largest oil companies, Rosneft
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