Xi Jinping to visit Russia next month for the BRICS summit

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will visit Russia next month for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed yesterday, a

A woman is killed near Moscow as over 140 Ukrainian drones target Russia, officials say

Over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, killing at least one person and injuring eight, officials said yesterday, in one of

US and UK spy chiefs praise Ukraine’s ‘audacious’ Russia incursion

The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies said yesterday [Macau time that Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change

Putin challenges international warrant

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Mongolia yesterday with no sign that the host country would bow to calls to arrest him on an international warrant for alleged

Modi visits Ukraine this week, after a recent trip to Moscow

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a historic visit today to Ukraine, a month and a half

The paper bear

Russia has 5,977 nuclear warheads, of which 1,500 are past their expiration date, according to estimates from the Federation of American Scientists. Of the remaining 4,500, most are

Russia’s Putin offers disaster aid to North Korea to help it cope with recent flooding damage

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered humanitarian assistance to help North Korea cope with damages from  In a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday,

Russian media throw shade at Paris Olympics, which TV won’t show

Watching the Paris Olympics will be difficult for most people in Russia — and in the view of its media, it’s not really worth the effort.

Top EU leaders will boycott meetings hosted by Hungary’s Orbán after his outreach to Russia, China

Top officials of the European Union will boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary while the country holds the EU’s rotating presidency, after Hungary’s pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor

China, Russia start joint naval drills, days after tensions with NATO allies

China and Russia’s naval forces on Sunday kicked off a joint exercise at a military port in southern China on Sunday, official news agency Xinhua reported, days

Treason and espionage cases are rising in Russia since the war in Ukraine began

When Maksim Kolker’s phone rang at 6 a.m., and the voice on the other end said his father had been arrested, he thought it was a

Indian Prime Minister Modi makes first visit to Russia since the start of its war on Ukraine

India’s prime minister began a two-day visit to Russia yesterday, his first since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, a war that has complicated the relationship between

Leaders of Russia and China meets in Central Asian summit in a show of deepening cooperation

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping is meeting for the second time in as many months as they visit Kazakhstan for a session

Putin signs deals with Vietnam in bid to shore up ties in Asia

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a series of deals with his Vietnamese counterpart To Lam yesterday, during a state visit that comes as Moscow is seeking to

Deal to use Russian assets for Ukraine as EU’s traditional powers recalibrate

A Group of Seven summit is opening today with agreement on a U.S. proposal to back a $50 billion loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets

Russia says it has captured five villages in northeast Ukraine as more than 1,700 civilians flee

Moscow’s forces captured five villages in a renewed ground assault in northeastern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday, and Associated Press journalists in the city of Vovchansk

Celebration of victory in World War II is a key pillar of Putin’s rule

Russia yesterday wrapped itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, a celebration of its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II that President Vladimir Putin has

Russia dependency on China, war and peace in Europe

Over the last decade, we have witnessed a significant shift in Russia’s positioning. Part of this repositioning stems from the theories of “Russian exceptionalism,” deeply imbued with the

As Putin begins another six-year term, he is entering a new era of extraordinary power

 Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin tomorrow will put his hand on a copy of the constitution and

Putin announces plans to visit China in May

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after

 
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