Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges ...

Russia's oil transit through Ukraine's pipeline system declined by 15% in 2024 to 11.5 million metric tons (230,300 barrels ...

Russia is quickening the pace of domestic asset seizures this year after courts ruled last week that a leading grain trader, ...

Vladimir Putin is committed to reversing Russia's declining birth rate but his plans have been hit hard by high casualty ...

Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul and investigative journalist Roman Anin dissect Trump and Putin’s shared traits, warn ...

Russia appears to be "addicted" to military spending to keep its economy propped up, a think tank said this week.

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...

Russia’s economy is showing “serious cracks” and the West must intensify sanctions to put Ukraine in the best possible ...

The Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia's space agency after a tenure of less than three years that was scarred by ...

Russia said on Thursday that it had withdrawn accreditation from Le Monde's Moscow correspondent Benjamin Quénelle due to ...

North Korean troops, largely special ops forces, have suffered high casualty rates in bloody assaults, not unlike prison ...

Rights groups, activists and independent media in Russia and Belarus endured increased government scrutiny, repressive laws and even were shut down and forced to operate from exile abroad.