The latest sanctions from President Joe Biden 's administration on Russia's oil sector have severely disrupted Moscow's ...

Trump calls Ukraine war ‘bloody mess’ as he refuses to rule out military action to gain control over Greenland ...

Vladimir Putin is determined to further enlarge Russia, and he sees Donald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland or take it by other ...

The incoming U.S. administration admits that its stunning polar gambit is about warding off Russian ambitions.

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Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko said Russia can't help but be "concerned" over President-elect Donald Trump's "unclear approaches".

Trump has the levers to force Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war promptly if he dispenses with the Biden Administration’s ...

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an ...

The Russian president should also take control of Norway's Spitsbergen island in the Arctic, according to Andrey Gurulev ...

NATO is not ready for a brutal Arctic war with Vladimir Putin, analysts have warned. Despite massive Nato drills in the region, troops will struggle to survive war in the freezing wilderness, they ...

A Russian court will next week issue verdicts against three of Alexei Navalny's former lawyers, being tried for "extremism" ...