"God save the Tsar!" was one of the first public birthday wishes for President Vladimir Putin who turns 72 on Monday and who ...

Russian gunrunner Viktor Bout was traded in 2022 for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner.

"Ukraine could win the war if it had an additional $50 billion per year, as well as a green light to bomb military targets ...

Russia has revealed it will boost its defence spending by a quarter to $145 billion in 2025. But is Putin’s war economy ...

Vladimir Putin's ambiguous signaling about his atomic intentions so far in the Ukraine war took a more formal turn when he ...

President Vladimir Putin is throwing ever more resources at two interlocked priorities: recruiting more soldiers and ...

Russian journalists and activists have recently obtained extraordinary access to the president’s inner circle.

Last week the president of Russia appeared to lower the threshold for his country’s use of nuclear weapons. It wasn’t subtle, ...

Putin's proposed radical revision of Russian nuclear doctrine has to be read alongside what he has actually done over the ...

Warning comes after Russia’s government unveiled plans to hike defence spending to highest levels since the Cold War ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday promoted Alexei Dyumin, his former bodyguard, to become a member of the powerful ...

"God save the Tsar!" was one of the first public birthday wishes for President Vladimir Putin who turns 72 on Monday and who ...