The arrest of gold baron Konstantin Strukov reveals the Kremlin's deeper problem: the war is redefining corruption, collapsing trust, and leaving Putin with fewer tools with which to govern.

Martus, from St Petersburg in Russia, attempted to rectify this in 2024 by reflagging the ship with that of the Cook Islands.

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

Popular history credits Russian Czar Nicholas I with describing 19th-century Ottoman Turkey as "The Sick Man of Europe." ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Reuters Trump in October 2007 heaped fulsome praise ... “I believe Putin will continue to re-build the Russian Empire,” Trump said on social media in 2014. “He has ...

We usually think of narcissism as a personal flaw — a grandiose ego, a craving for attention, a lack of empathy. But what if ...

By 2004, his empire gave him a net worth of $15 billion. That made him the richest person in Russia and the 16th richest ...

Trump said after a call last week with Putin that he was unhappy with Russia’s president and “I don’t think he’s looking to ...

Russia's new sanctions-busting method is "netting," an accounting tactic.

The president’s remarks during a cabinet meeting were the latest sign of his growing displeasure with the Russian leader.

For the Trump administration, which is still seeking a swift end to the conflict, that is undoubtedly a bitter pill to swallow. But the drivers of Russian policy dictate that, even if it wanted to, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine came after he privately ...