The administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin is choosing opponents for Putin in the 2024 presidential election and has decided that it will not register candidates under 50 so that Putin does not look like an old man.
From poisonings to shootings to falls from windows and now possibly plane crashes, Kremlin has been accused of numerous lethal attacks
The presidential decree is aimed at employees of Wagner and other private military contractors.
Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Macron should all be thinking twice after Prigozhin’s death about pinning hopes on deals with Putin.
The Russian leader has wanted a new history curriculum for over a decade and now he has it — one written partly by himself and his unabashed apparatchiks.
Nearly 24 hours after a plane with Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin on board crashed in Russia’s Tver region, President Vladimir Putin has made his first public statement.
Russia tightly controls its information space—making it hard to get accurate information out of the country. But open source data provides some clues about the crash.
The Russian president has seemingly upped the stakes: anyone who challenges his regime will have to see it through to the end, says Samantha de Bendern, associate fellow at Chatham House
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has dismissed General Sergei Surovikin from the post of commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Media reports say Surovikin was detained by Russian counterintelligence in connection with the rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin; the general is known to be the latter?s associate.
Russia has "entered the top five largest economies in the world" and "outpaced Germany in purchasing power parity", despite pessimistic forecasts.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin won't be participating in the United Nations General Assembly session this year, Ukrainska Pravda reported on Aug.18.
Latvian intelligence services believe that Vladimir Putin’s regime appears stable at the moment, protests are unlikely but not entirely ruled out.
Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Belarus, believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already achieved his goals in the war against Ukraine. He added that Ukraine will be less ?aggressive? towards Russia from now on.
Xi and Putin are entering a dangerous time in the life cycle of dictators.
After Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he swiftly eliminated the liberal anti-war opposition. But Putin now faces a threat from the other side – pro-war hawks who criticize Russia's political and military leadership for mishandling the war effort. As Russia's war...
Vladimir Putin has submitted a draft law to the Russian State Duma that would eliminate the requirement for Russia to notify the Council of Europe’s Secretary-General when it imposes or lifts martial law or a state of emergency.
The Russian leader’s no-show at the BRICS summit in South Africa demonstrates the geopolitical impact of the ICC’s arrest warrant.
While Ukraine continues to occupy a regular spot in news reporting, western outlets and politicians still overlook the main reason for the war. In order to make sure such a conflict cannot happen again in the future, we must understand the deep-rooted societal norms that allowed Russia to invade in the first place.
Russian President Vladimir Putin can choose not to hold presidential elections next year because he will “obviously” win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said late Sunday.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian dictator, claimed that Vladimir Putin will be re-elected in the presidential election next year with a result of more than 90% of the vote.
MELEKHOVO, Russia (AP) — A Russian court convicted imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism and sentenced him to 19 years in prison on Friday. Navalny is already serving a nine-year term on a variety of charges that he says were politically motivated.
Yevgeny Prigozhin seems largely unscathed, while faith in the Russian president’s invincibility has taken a battering, says Prof Kimberly Marten
Ukraine and US start talks on security guarantees; EU urges G20 ministers to help persuade Putin to reopen grain export route
Brussels’ foreign policy chief calls on nations to speak with a unified voice to help ‘people most in need’
In July 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin classified more of his decrees than he had during his presidency to date.
