Trump’s Russia Sanctions Shift War Dynamics to the Energy Front

As winter slows the pace of battlefield combat, Moscow and Kyiv are betting on campaigns against each other’s energy assets ...

Bloody letters and battlefield art: Russian museum's tribute to North Korean soldiers in Ukraine

When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the ...
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One of Russia's largest oil refineries reportedly suspends operations after Ukrainian attack

The plant is Russia's fourth-largest oil refinery and processed 13.1 million tons of oil last year, according to Russian ...

Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it

Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat ...

What Trump’s latest Russia sanctions mean for Moscow, Europe and Kyiv

Trump’s latest sanctions on Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft intensify pressure on Moscow, disrupt global energy markets ...

US could hit Russia with more sanctions to end Ukraine war, but first wants Europe to increase pressure

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has prepared additional sanctions it could use to target key areas of Russia's ...

A bad week for Hungary’s strongman leader as Trump-Putin summit scrapped and US sanctions Russia

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was delighted to learn last week that Russia and the United States had chosen his ...

Top Russian envoy visits US for ‘official’ talks, days after Trump imposes sanctions on Moscow

Russia’s top economic envoy has arrived in the United States for “official” talks just days after President Donald Trump announced tough new sanctions on Russia, sources with knowledge of the visit ...