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The former UK PM said "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning".
The head of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation accused Ukraine on Sunday of attacking diesel fuel trucks, killing two Russian servicemen and deliberately jeopardising safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Alexei Likhachev said the attack took place on Friday and also resulted in injuries to other Russian soldiers. The Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest with six reactors, was seized by Russian forces in the early weeks of the Ukraine war that broke...
Russia is turning to its Far East as one of the alternative ways to export its grain, as Ukrainian strikes disrupt flows from its key Black Sea ports, Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut said.
The Russian authorities are using dubious claims to disqualify candidates previously cleared to run in the parliamentary election from September 18 to 20. The war in Ukraine is making the Kremlin even more cautious about who is allowed to campaign.
Russia’s production of crude oil shrank in August, lagging further behind its OPEC+ quota, after Ukraine stepped up attacks on the nation’s oil assets.
Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson has criticized Tokyo's request to remove a new statue of a Soviet soldier destroying a stone marker bearing a chrysanthemum emblem, a symbol of Japan. Japan should not interfere in the matter, Maria Zakharova, director of the ministry's Information and Press Department, told a press conference Wednesday. The statue was...
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister is in Moscow for a joint Saudi Russian press conference.
Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that President Putin will hold a bilateral meeting with PM Modi on Friday (September 11, 2026) on the sidelines of the BRICS summit
Ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have grown extensively amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian state news outlets reported. Our correspondent Gulliver Cragg tells us more.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due to hold talks with Russia before travelling to Ukraine on Sunday.
Russia’s oil revenue slumped to a six-month low in August, reflecting lower export prices and compounding pressure on the Kremlin’s ability to finance its war in Ukraine.
François Picard is pleased to welcome Anna Borshchevskaya, Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute. She interprets Russia’s reported missile support for Iran not as an isolated arms transaction, but as part of a broader geopolitical strategy in which Moscow treats Ukraine, Iran, NATO, and the United States as interconnected fronts. In her analysis, Vladimir Putin’s objective is less about pursuing direct military confrontation with Washington than about altering the strategic environment around it: strengthening actors hostile to the United States, increasing the costs of American and Israeli military action, and repeatedly probing Western thresholds for retaliation.
Tokyo, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)--Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Japan is fully responsible for the deterioration of relations between Tokyo and Moscow, Russia's state-run Tass news agency reported. Putin reportedly said that Japan's reaction to his visit to a disputed island in the northwestern Pacific did not surprise him. Russia had not taken any steps to worsen relat...