Nobody under 25 in Russia has known any other ruler than Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin is determined to ensure the new generation continues to be formed in the president’s image.

A brief look at a map shows why foreign and security policy are so important in this northern European country of 5.6 million people: Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer (832-mile) border with Russia.

Russians competed under the name “Olympic Athlete from Russia” at the 2018 Winter Olympics and as ROC in 2021 and 2022, without their country’s anthem or flag but with national colors on ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russia’s path to sending a team to the Paris Olympics next year became clearer on Thursday amid fierce objections from Ukraine. The International Olympic Committee ...

Russia, China compete with US for Arctic Circle dominion that could shape international trade for ... The country that manages to establish its claim also gets the rights to a roughly 200-mile ...

Russia saw greater purpose and value in BRICS following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the war in eastern Ukraine, and the coordinated Western sanctions against Russia that followed. Russia ...

With Orban in China and Modi in Russia, Putin’s multipolar world takes shape. As Hungary’s leader pushed for a Ukraine cease-fire, Russian missile strikes hit a children’s hospital in Kyiv ...

This would mean pushing Ukraine to accept Russia’s conditions, ignoring any demand for security guarantees, and potentially pressuring the EU to lift sanctions. This would leave Ukraine divided; ...

The U.S. embassy in Ukraine says Russia could launch a "significant air attack" on Kyiv after U.S.-made missiles were fired into Russia's Bryansk region.