August is known as the “cursed month” in Russia, and with good reason. The August coup of 1991 led to the final downfall of ...

Vladimir Putin is reportedly panicking about a member of his inner circle scheming against him after his Navy Day parade ...

Zhanna Nemtsova, founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom, has been arrested in absentia by a Moscow court for her ...

VLADIMIR Putin’s shadow fleet ships have been blitzed with 12 new attacks overnight, as 47 of Russia’s vessels are hit in one week. Mad Vlad’s tankers bring fuel to occupied ...

This brilliant account of attempts by the old guard to take back control captures the ludicrousness of it all beautifully ...

The Russian president presiding over a meeting of the security council, June 2026. EPA/Pavel Byrkin/Sputnik/Kremlin pool Russia’s war against Ukraine is not going according to Vladimir Putin’s ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during their meeting at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in Saint Petersburg on April 27, 2026. Dmitry ...

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This is a profoundly dangerous inversion of religious teaching. When the state wages war and the Russian Orthodox Church ...

The founder of Rusal, the owner of Aughinish Alumina plant in Co Limerick, Oleg Deripaska, officially stood down as its ...

Garry Kasparov is the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative and was the 13th world chess champion. Whether or not President Donald Trump persuades Republicans to pass the Save America Act, his ...