Tag: President Vladimir Putin

Tens of thousands of protesters have joined one of Moscow’s biggest political rallies in recent years, denouncing the exclusion of…

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (pictured) has been moved to a hospital with symptoms that a doctor said looked…

The UK’s media regulator has fined Russia’s RT £200,000 for violating broadcasting regulations, a move the Russian Foreign Ministry said…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to reduce tension with Georgia by rejecting parliamentary calls for trade restrictions as thousands…

Fourteen sailors have purportedly died in a fire on a Russian deep-sea submersible with unconfirmed reports saying five survived. The…

A growing number of military near-misses involving Russia and Nato forces point to a strategic rebalancing based on a growing…

Despite prolonged efforts by Russia to attract Chinese investment to its Pacific coast, firms from China appear to have little…

Ukraine is urging its residents not to apply for Russian passports after Moscow streamlines the process for eastern Ukrainians to…

Russia has held a rock concert to make 30 years since the end of the Afghan war as part of…

Chechnya has launched a fresh crackdown on the gay community in which at least two have died and about 40…

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has said relations with the UK are “deadlocked” but he hopes “common sense will prevail”. The…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s old Stasi identity card has been discovered after 28 years in the Dresden archives of the…

Russian human rights campaigner and Soviet dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva (pictured) has died aged 91. Russia’s human rights council chief Mikhail…

European leaders and Nato have reacted with scepticism to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko requests for new measures to strengthen his…

Nato members have backed Kiev after Russia fired on Ukrainian ships and seized 23 sailors in the Black Sea’s Kerch…