In 2015, when Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Syria at the request of dictator Bashar al-Assad, he had several goals in mind. He wanted to help Russia escape the international ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has apologized for the fact that an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed after entering Russian airspace in Grozny, Chechnya, on Wednesday, but did not say that ...

(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Russia’s air defense systems were active when an Azerbaijan Airlines flight attempted to land in Grozny, Chechnya on Wednesday.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin told his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Saturday that Russian air defence was active when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Grozny before it ...

After a surprise offensive earlier this year, Ukraine’s forces have lost about half the territory seized in Russia’s Kursk region and may lose the rest in a matter of months, according to US ...

Russian president Boris Yeltsin’s infamous no-show at Shannon Airport was a big news story in 1994 and newly released archive files shed much new light on the background to the incident ...

The owner of a Russian cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea said Thursday that a "terrorist attack" was behind the incident. Newsweek reached out to the Russian government via online form ...

Investigators work near a scooter at the place where Lt. General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defence Forces and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov were killed ...

Azerbaijan's preliminary thesis: Russia defences downed plane At least 38 people were killed in Wednesday's crash Plane was in an area where Russia has downed Ukrainian drones Kazakhstan says no ...

in Russia’s southern region of Chechnya, when it diverted and attempted an emergency landing in the Kazakh city of Aktau — some 270 miles from its initial destination, on the other side of the ...

Maps of the war in Ukraine show Russian advances as troops appeared to make gains into enemy territory on Christmas Eve. These advancs stretch along the border of Russian-controlled land and show ...

Russia's economy is likely entering a year of pain in 2025. Since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin has restructured its economy to prioritize its war ...