The 72-year-old dictator is said to enjoy using ancient remedies to prolong his life and give him strength, say reports. His ...

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been jailed in Russia as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since ...

But they won’t be paid if the baby is stillborn, according to the independent daily the Moscow Times ... The payments come as the Kremlin looks for ways to reverse Russia’s ongoing demographic ...

Recommended Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow launched 300 attack drones ... worth an estimated €1.1bn in tax revenue to the Kremlin. Russia is the largest crude oil supplier to China and ...

Russian gas is no longer flowing to EU states through Ukraine following the expiration of a five-year deal, closing an energy route that has existed since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Ukraine's decision to stop Russian gas flowing to EU states through its pipelines will hurt the bloc rather than Moscow, Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has said. Russian gas exports via ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his government to draft a response to "unacceptable" Western sanctions over Moscow's perceived backing of pro-Kremlin rebels in Ukraine's volatile east. AFP ...

Vladimir Putin walks to take his oath as Russian president during an inauguration ceremony in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia ... When the Fall of Berlin Wall in 1989, Putin was stationed ...

BAKU -- After Azerbaijan's president accused Russia of accidentally shooting down an airliner and covering up the cause, public anger in the Caucasian country is mounting against Moscow for its ...

In the weeks since Bashar al-Assad was ousted as Syrian leader, Russia has launched multiple flights to an airbase in the Libyan desert. Moscow’s goal appears to be to find an alternative ...

As Russia clings to its only bases in the Mediterranean — they’re on the coast of Syria — Ukraine is moving aggressively to displace Moscow as Syria’s main ... on Turkey for overflight permission. The ...

Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, was assassinated in an explosion in Moscow ... a figure the Kremlin called “catastrophic.” ...