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Russia’s defence minister accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a defence exhibition that featured the North’s banned ballistic missiles as the neighbours pledged to boost ties, ...

Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan has been disqualified after refusing to shake hands with Russian Anna Smirnova at the World Championships in Milan on Thursday. Kharlan, a four-time Olympic medallist and ...

Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia’s Far East that forms the world’s biggest permafrost crater. In the ...

Russia on Thursday imposed Soviet-style restrictions on British diplomats, requiring them to give at least five working days’ notice of any plans to travel beyond a 120-km (75-mile) radius, due ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved Arctic LNG 2’s first line departure via the Northern Sea Route from the Murmansk region to its future production site on the Gydan peninsula, the ...

A tanker containing liquefied natural gas (LNG) that originated from a Russia supplier and was loaded onto a Gunvor Group-chartered <GGL.UL> vessel off the coast of France ...

The head of Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service said on Wednesday last month’s mutiny by Russian mercenaries showed there were ‘deep fractures’ surrounding the Kremlin, and invited Russians ...

By Tom Balmforth The Ukrainian president’s performance at a Nato summit this week was vintage Volodymyr Zelenskiy: go in hard, push allies beyond their comfort zone, and go home ...

The Wagner mercenary group is completing its handover of weapons to Russia’s regular armed forces, the Russian Defence ministry said on Wednesday, more than two weeks after the group ...

Elle Solomina is 36, but she says her life truly began in 2021, when she changed her gender to female in her official Russian identification documents. The IT worker is now watching ...

Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov welcomed the US decision to send cluster bombs to Kyiv, saying it would help to de-occupy the Ukrainian territory but vowed that the munitions ...

Russia’s finance ministry said on Wednesday it would sell 1.7 billion roubles’ ($18.9 million) worth of foreign currency a day between July 7 and Aug. 4, a decrease in the volume of daily ...

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg visited Kyiv on Thursday to draw attention to environmental damage caused by war in Ukraine and criticized the world’s response to the June 6 collapse ...

Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters barrelled towards Moscow on Saturday after seizing a southern city overnight, with Russia’s military firing on them from the air but seemingly incapable of slowing ...

Russia urged Azerbaijan to fully unblock the Lachin corridor on Friday, the only road that links Armenia with the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave where over 100,000 ethnic Armenians live who rely on it ...

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Russia’s embassy in Israel will open offices in Jerusalem to serve its consular section as part of an agreement with the city, the embassy and Israel’s foreign ministry ...

Burst dam threatens humanitarian, environmental disaster By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for ...

If it is a war crime, it has strong echoes of Britain’s bombing of Rhur valley in WWII For unreconstructed Anglophiles like myself Dambusters was a heroic British operation ...

The Community of Ukrainian-Cypriot friendship said on Friday they will stage a protest on Sunday “to express frustration” with the fact that the national day of Russia would be marked ...

Taiwan-based computer manufacturer Acer (2353.TW) supplied at least $70.4 million worth of computer hardware to Russia between April 8, 2022 and March 31, 2023, according to customs data seen by Reuters, after saying it would ...

After months of negotiations, Finland’s Nokian Tyres (TYRES.HE) was on the cusp late last year of finalising a 400-million-euro ($440.32 million) sale of its Russian business. Then Moscow changed ...

Russian designers and brands are helping the retail sector gradually recover from a turbulent 15 months of store closures and slumping demand, with new labels plugging the gap left by foreign ...

A handful of Cyprus-based companies were among the 300 entities hit with US sanctions on Friday. The three companies are Robarin Ltd, Aquila Capital Group, Huriya Private Cyprus Ltd. The list ...