Sanctions

"Wow, huge move. Just shows weakening grip across region of Russia," said economist Timothy Ash of comments by Kazakhstan's president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

Oleg Deripaska told the Financial Times that Russia has shown financial resilience since the start of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Fuel shortages have been reported nationwide, while wholesale fuel prices have soared across the country.

As five American hostages come home from Iran—amid both support for and criticism of the deal that secured their release—a much more complex picture lies beyond the headlines.

Over the past year, dozens of types of drugs have disappeared from pharmacies in Russia.

Eighteen months into Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, Western-imposed sanctions are taking a toll on the daily lives of Russians.

Trump calls for the GOP to remove the president from office while citing the 25th amendment in wake of American detainees deal with Iran

Billions of dollars of Russia's oil sale profits are stuck in India, as Russia looks to move away from the world's dominant reserve currency.

"The fact that you imposed sanctions on my mother, I won't forgive you for that," said Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

The president's grand orders to excise Western influence have fallen flat as the Russian economy struggles to keep up.

Two Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Red Wings "simultaneously failed," the airline said in a statement.

The ruble slumped toward 100 per dollar on Wednesday, its weakest level in 16 months.

"I am horrified about the fate of people in Ukraine...whose houses are being bombed every day," said Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh.

Why does the EU still maintain an artificial distinction between Hezbollah's so-called "military" and "political" wings, allowing the group to continue operating virtually unfettered across Europe?

The ruble's temporary collapse was partially caused by spending on the parts of Ukraine that were illegally annexed last fall, the lawmaker said.

These talks are just the latest phase of the decades-long, and to date utterly unsuccessful, U.S. effort to change Tehran's deadly and destructive behavior in the region and beyond.

The Russian president has left the country only twice since his troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

The controversial visit of a Chechen businessman has sparked fresh anger as partially occupied Georgia struggles with a wave of Russian migrants.

A man once married to the Russian leader's elder daughter had his land in the Netherlands seized. He also reportedly had his laptop and phone confiscated.

Newsweek investigation adds to growing demands that the U.S. federal retirement system exclude the option for investment in sanctioned Chinese companies

Russia has announced an additional 500 U.S. citizens are barred from the country in response to new U.S. sanctions over Russia's war with Ukraine.

In a new list of sanctions, the Kremlin penalized prominent adversaries of former President Donald Trump who have no known connections to Russian policy.

The head of Russia's transportation watchdog organization told lawmakers that 2,000 Russian flights were performed last year using expired parts.

An emerging alliance between the two authoritarian giants is "very real" and has been deepened by the war on Ukraine, Liz Truss told Newsweek.

Russia possesses a key resource for clean energy that many nations want, including the United States.

By April 2023, the Kremlin's budget deficit exceeded what authorities had planned for the entire year.

Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko's lawyer said his client's ties to Vladimir Putin do not mean that he is an ally of Putin in the war in Ukraine.

The Russian president had already decided to attack Kyiv in February-March 2021, an investigation has stated.

The failure of diplomatic efforts to bring Iran back to the JCPOA nuclear deal, and the problematic role being played by Iran in the Russia-Ukraine war, require a new Western strategy regarding Iran.

Russian doctors are reportedly having to travel overseas to get hands-on dissection experience with cadavers.