PARIS — Europe faces the new year amid a grim pileup of threats, its voters angry, its traditional political parties ...

The year is ending with a pair of sharp messages between top advisers to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the incoming U.S.

Putin seems to believe that "with the Democrats' loss in the U.S. elections, the Western world he has fought against is ...

The 21st century has seen the two most compelling ideologies of the 1990s malfunction horrendously. These are neo-liberalism, the belief that, overall, markets are more efficient than governments in ...

Since the selection for Oxford’s yearly word is done by public poll, this leads me to my first prediction in this column of ...

Among the common myths: that Russia is victim of NATO aggression and that Putin only wants Ukrainian neutrality.

In Japan, pundits have lamented the perceived deficiencies of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba compared with the late Shinzo Abe ...

Trump's re-entry to the White House may accelerate common cause within the anti-Western bloc.

MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Russia has expressed readiness to supply gas to the EU, Moscow is open to negotiations with Trump on the Ukraine conflict, and the Syrian opposition recently engaged in ...

Who'd have thunk it? The Assad regime collapses in Syria after 54 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin's hold on power ...

The Russian government, led by President Vladimir Putin, began shifting its anti-crypto stance in recent months, legalizing crypto mining and its use in international payments.

Switzerland is ready to host talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the Swiss Foreign Ministry’s spokesman confirmed to Izvestia. However, Moscow will hardly agree to that because Switzerland ...