The year 2024 saw President Vladimir Putin further cement his power as he sought to counter Russia's isolation over the war ...

In 2024, a great many well-known politicians, statesmen, scientists and cultural figures passed away. Government, political ...

Brian Freemantle, who has died aged 88, was a globetrotting journalist turned prolific thriller writer, best-known as the ...

The substance is the same drug that former Russian tennis star and multiple Grand Slam champion ... by athletes and was instead designed for 'Soviet super soldiers'. 'If the soldiers are to ...

Mikheil Kavelashvili was inaugurated as president of Georgia on Sunday, following a tumultuous election period marked by ...

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The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

March 18. Thomas P. Stafford, one of 24 US astronauts who flew to the Moon and commander of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight, the first joint US-Soviet space mission, died in Satellite Beach, ...

TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The picture is a far cry from the West's claims that its sanctions would collapse the Russian ... ex-Soviet countries that have ...

A tightly-scripted meeting of the Russia-dominated economic alliance of several ex-Soviet nations briefly went awry Thursday when two leaders engaged in bickering during a live broadcast of the event.