Russia's friends — or frenemies — aren't all pariah states. Some of them enjoy good relations with the West, too.

Russia has held several rounds of tactical nuclear weapons drills this year, and regularly carries out military exercises for its strategic nuclear forces.

Russia's largest movie studio donated about 50 tanks and armored vehicles from the 1950s that it had been using a props.

The newly discovered memo, written in March 1994 by Wayne Merry, chief of the U.S. Embassy’s internal politics division at the time, didn’t make the same impact as Kennan’s for two reasons. First, Merry did not go public.

Volunteers helping to clean up a major oil spill along Russia's Black Sea coast appealed in a video released on Monday for President Vladimir Putin to urgently send federal aid, saying that they and local authorities were overwhelmed.

Russian shelling of Donetsk region in southeastern Ukraine killed six civilains and injured five others. Russian troops executed four Ukrainian prisoners of war in the region’s frontline Volnovakha district on Dec.

Ukrainian military intelligence said a Russian Shahed-136 drone warehouse became engulfed in a "devastating" fire that destroyed $16 million worth of drone parts, according to a Telegram post by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR).

At least 147 Ukrainian POWs have been executed since Russia invaded the country in 2022 — and 127 of them were killed just this year, according to the Ukrainian government.

Russia's economy has operated like a marathoner on fiscal steroids—and now those steroids are wearing off."

Russia faces increasing difficulty shipping commodities to China through its vast eastern rail network, a sign of the growing economic challenges stemming from war and sanctions, despite the Kremlin’s assurances that all is well.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.