Just a half hour's drive from the Kremlin, located in the village of ... expansive estates behind heavily guarded gates. With the Russian economy on the verge of crumbling, the small population ...

The hardening of the regime has been a gradual process in which the Russian leader counted on the passive loyalty of the ...

A pro-Kremlin bloggers released a video on the Telegram social messaging app on Friday that showed Santa Claus being shot ...

From a retired KGB agent in 1990 to becoming the Acting President of Russia in 1999, Vladimir Putin’s rise was swift with few ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday played down the damage to Russian influence in the Middle East from the fall of Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad, saying that its focus was on Ukraine and ...

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The rebels, which operate under the military command of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS), moved into the capital ...

Just a 30 minute drive from the Kremlin lies the village of Barivkha ... fled the country in 2005 after an angry mob stormed his palace. Yanukovych was forced from power in Ukraine after huge ...

The Kremlin said its focus now was to ensure the security of its military bases in Syria and of its diplomatic missions. Russia, the Kremlin said, had helped Assad during the civil war but the ...