After nearly four years of fiscal overreach caused by injecting trillions of rubles into the Russian economy, the Kremlin can no longer disguise its distress.

Russia is threatening to reject President Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan unless "key understandings" from his Alaska summit with President Putin are upheld.

One of Russia's largest oil terminals halted operations on Saturday following an attack by sea drones, hours before Ukrainian negotiators were headed to the United States for talks on ending the war.The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC),

Russia failed on Friday to win enough votes to rejoin the U.N. shipping agency's governing council despite urging countries to back its nomination for a seat it lost in 2023.

In the wake of the ill-fated Russo-American 28-point proposal to bring about an end to the Ukraine conflict, the EU has ramped up its pressure on Belgium to unfreeze the assets so as not only to erase Ukraine’s $65 billion budget shortfall over the next two years but also to finance arms acquisition and civilian reconstruction.

Russia has approved a new long-term national policy strategy calling for a significant strengthening of Russian identity and language use, particularly in Ukrainian territories annexed since the 2022 invasion.

Igor Sechin, one of the most influential men in Russia's energy sector, said on Tuesday that sanctions imposed by the United States, European powers and their allies on Russia and China will trigger an economic crisis in the West.

Last month, the Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, signaling a renewed desire to drive Moscow to the negotiating table in its war against Ukraine.