Why has Ukraine launched a raid into Russia?
When Kyiv launched a cross-border raid into Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine, the question from some military experts was: “Why?” One of Ukraine’s biggest battlefield issues is…
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Russia's Putin accuses Ukraine of provocation amid border fighting
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Ukraine of a serious provocation following reports of a Ukrainian offensive in the Russian border region of Kursk. At a government…
Putin calls for a project to promote 'traditional Russian values' overseas
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Speaker of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin and Speaker of the Federation Council, the Upper House…
Putin greets Russians freed in prisoner exchange at Moscow airport
Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally met the Russians released in a major prisoner exchange at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Putin hugged at least one of the men on the tarmac,…
Lukashenko pardons German sentenced to death in Belarus
The authoritarian leader of Belarus has pardoned a German citizen who had been sentenced to death. Rico Kroeger was arrested in October and had been accused of acting as a mercenary and of…
Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent
Dissent is not tolerated in Vladimir Putin's Russia. For years Kremlin critics have faced a host of laws which could be used against them, and since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that…
German journalist group expels Putin biographer amid Russian payments
German journalist association Netzwerk Recherche has expelled Hubert Seipel from its membership, after the biographer of Russian President Vladimir Putin was revealed to have accepted…
German foreign minister: Gershkovich sentence 'politically motivated'
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described the Russian court decision on Friday to sentence US reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years for allegedly spying as "politically…
Putin opens Moscow to St Petersburg motorway after 14 years of work
After roughly 14 years of construction work, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most important infrastructure projects - a 670 kilometre roadway between Moscow and St Petersburg -…
Kiev spy chief says several attempts made to assassinate Putin
There have been several attempts to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to military intelligence service chief Kyrylo Budanov on Saturday. "But as you can see, they…
Lithuanian ministers won't attend EU meetings over Orbán's Putin trip
Lithuania will temporarily not send ministers to Hungary for EU meetings after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's recently visited Russia without consulting other EU member states.…
Russian authorities put Russian opposition leader Navalny's widow on list of 'extremists'
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities on Thursday put the widow of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on a list of “terrorists and extremists,” continuing a sweeping Kremlin…