Russia’s wartime economy has been sustained, in part, by oil and gas revenues as Europe has relied on it for several decades. Key to that arrangement is Ukraine, the country Russia is at war with, as the countries have a deal in place to allow Russian gas to transit via Ukraine and reach Europe.
The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia's Siberia region who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found.
Russia's friends — or frenemies — aren't all pariah states. Some of them enjoy good relations with the West, too.
Eugene Spector, who was already serving a 3½-year sentence in Russia for bribery, received the additional sentence after being charged with espionage last year.
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.
A Moscow court has on Tuesday sentenced a US citizen to 15 years in prison on espionage charges, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
North Korea and Russia are deepening their military cooperation, as Pyongyang ramps up the supply of arms to Moscow for its war in Ukraine and receives much needed cash and oil from the Kremlin in return.
Murza, a vehement critic of President Vladimir V. Putin, didn’t want to be part of a prisoner exchange. But he says more exchanges are needed.
Due to sanctions and other factors, the Kremlin faces economic limitations. This is likely to hinder its efforts to impose policies aimed at combating the long-term demographic decline in Russia, according to the US Institute for the Study of War (ISW).