MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin calls improving the Russian navy’s combat capabilities a priority. The unfinished husks of three guided-missile frigates that...
MOSCOW: With his ratings down and state funds needed to hedge against new Western sanctions and raise living standards, Russian President Vladimir Putin...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has created a new directorate inside the Russian army to promote patriotism, evoking memories of a Soviet practice...
MOSCOW: Russia long saw Donald Trump as the wild card in its strategy to improve relations with the United States. But 14 months after he became U.S....
MOSCOW: From Damascus to Doha, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has been showing up in unexpected places, a sign of the military’s growing...
MOSCOW: Poised to run for a fourth term, President Vladimir Putin has started clearing out the old Russian political elite and says he’s bringing in young...
MOSCOW: Russia is quietly boosting economic support for North Korea to try to stymie any U.S.-led push to oust Kim Jong Un as Moscow fears his fall would sap...
MOSCOW: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has complained his wife and two children are being tracked by the security services, but said he’s not afraid...
MOSCOW: Yuri Dmitriev spent years locating and exhuming the mass graves of people executed during Josef Stalin’s Great Terror. Eight decades after one of...
MOSCOW: Some of the biggest anti-Kremlin protests in years swept across Russia Monday, with over 1,000 people detained by the police ahead of a presidential...
MOSCOW: First, armed police seized some of its books. Next, its director was put on trial, accused of stirring up ethnic hatred. And now, quietly, its shelves...
MOSCOW: In his book, “Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump said the best deals were ones where both sides got something they wanted. His credo, applied to a...
MURMANSK, Russia: The nuclear icebreaker Lenin, the pride and joy of the Soviet Union’s Arctic great game, lies at perpetual anchor in the frigid water here....
ASTANA/MOSCOW: Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition in Kazakhstan were a coup for their international sponsors, but exposed the limits of...
MOSCOW/ISTANBUL: President Vladimir Putin said he and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan are working to organize a new series of Syrian peace talks...
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin appears politically invincible after Russia’s ruling party won its biggest ever parliamentary majority this month. But he faces...
MOSCOW: Russia will countenance Syrian President Bashar Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of...
MOSCOW: Donald Trump is a brave pro-Putin political maverick who would end U.S. foreign wars and perhaps lift sanctions on Moscow. Hillary Clinton, however,...
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin cited Russian military success in Syria as his reason for scaling back his forces there. But his belief that the intervention delivered...
MOSCOW: Francois Hollande’s decision to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week, the first bilateral visit by an EU leader in six months, may galvanize...
BEIRUT/MOSCOW: Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government,...
MOSCOW: For Vladimir Putin, Russia’s military buildup in Syria is a potential diplomatic trump card and a handy way of diverting attention from Ukraine’s...
KOSTROMA, Russia: Six months after opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead outside the Kremlin in an unsolved contract killing, one of his closest...
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron convened a meeting of his government's emergency response committee to discuss what more it could do to tackle a spike in...
JAKARTA/LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday he was ready to order airstrikes on Islamist militant targets in Libya and Syria to prevent attacks...