TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

The Kremlin tends to play down these attacks, and has a history of offering unconvincing explanations for massive explosions that sometimes result. On Friday, Russian authorities acknowledged that ...

In Russia, size matters when it comes to family. Just look at the Asachyovs. Vera and her husband Timofey have eight children - from 18-year-old Sofiya to 18-month-old Marusya - and they've just ...

The family of an American schoolteacher serving a 14-year prison sentence at a hard labor camp in Russia is hopeful for ... worked for nearly a decade as a history teacher at the Anglo-American ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected plans associated with President-elect Donald Trump to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. In an interview with Russian state news agency TASS ...

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin appears before the media after the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 28, 2024. (Mikhail Tereshchenko ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Stepped up attacks by Russia are heightening ...

In 2024, President Vladimir Putin further cemented his grip on power and sought to counter Russia's isolation from the West over the war in Ukraine. But he faced continuing challenges, with a ...

The deadly crash this week of an Azerbaijani passenger jet — with Russian air defenses as the suspected culprit — brings into focus a little-noticed aspect of the war in Ukraine: a battle zone ...

Ukraine says naval drone destroyed Russian helicopter for first time Flurry of attacks on Kyiv and elsewhere comes as Ukraine says it shot down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter for the first time.

This is a war between a totalitarian bloc — in which Russia is joined by Iran, North Korea and China — against the free world. If Putin wins, the entire totalitarian bloc wins, and America and ...