Vladímir Putin

Putin threatens to keep numerous Western assets while accelerating privatization and bestowing his blessing on the new millionaires who support him

A dissident politician believes a congress of deputies in the secessionist Moldovan region will request incorporation into the Russian Federation this week

Alexei Navalny and two U.S. citizens held in Russia were supposed to be swapped for Vadim Krasikov, who was serving a life sentence in Germany, according to his ally

The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy calls on member states to increase and accelerate aid to Ukraine

Independent Russian news outlet Mediazona said Saturday that about 75,000 Russian men died in 2022 and 2023 fighting in the war

Western leaders are showing their support for Zelenskiy in Kyiv, but without major economic or military aid announcements. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, continues to praise the Ukrainian military: ‘You saved your country, you saved all of Europe’

Russia has taken the initiative with timid advances in the face of ammunition shortages for Kiev’s troops, lack of additional soldiers and doubts about Washington’s support. Analysts predict a long conflict

Earlier Saturday, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow, accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by trying to force his mother to agree to a secret funeral after his death in an Arctic penal colony

The United States will impose the largest single tranche of penalties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The European Union’s sanctions will target companies and Russian officials and businessmen

Hardly any reliable information about a crime attributed to a direct order from Moscow has emerged since a court decreed secrecy around the investigation

The president of the European Council warns that there is no other option but to continue supporting Kyiv: ‘We cannot allow ourselves to fall into fatigue’

Speaking in a video statement from the Arctic city of Salekhard, Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators have allowed her to see her son’s body in the city morgue

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s 30-minute flight in a supersonic strategic bomber seemed intended to send a reminder of Russia’s nuclear might amid soaring tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine

President Joe Biden was speaking to donors at a private San Francisco home. The Kremlin said Biden ‘behaves in the Hollywood cowboy style to serve internal political interests’

Russia is returning to a ‘particularly aggressive’ posture reminiscent of the former Soviet Union’s behavior during the Cold War, France’s defense minister said

After flying his helicopter into Ukraine, the pilot quietly moved to the Spanish Mediterranean, but he chose an area full of Russian and Ukrainian residents. Some locals say that may have made him easy to recognize

Spain’s Foreign Ministry will send a strong response if the involvement of Russian secret services in the crime is proven

More than a million minors affected by the war are at risk of depression and post-traumatic stress. Public and private initiatives are trying to rebuild networks to help them

Yulia Navalnaya’s announcement that she will continue her husband’s fight has sparked a degree of hope in some dissidents, despite the fact that the Kremlin’s threats will prevent her from doing politics in Russia

The Republican candidate is taking advantage of the Russian dissident’s death to claim again that he is the target of political persecution, making no mention of Vladimir Putin

Maxim Kuzminov escaped with his combat helicopter in August, in a daring move that was used as propaganda by Kyiv. Russia’s spy chief says the ‘traitor,’ who was shot and run over with his own car, was a ‘moral corpse’

Lyudmila Navalnaya, who has been trying to get his body since Saturday, appeared in a video outside the Arctic penal colony where Navalny died on Friday