MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's political system is showing signs of "ruinous" stagnation, President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday, in his harshest criticism to date of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ...

OANDA reports that Western sanctions on Russia have failed to collapse its economy, leading to de-dollarization and advanced evasion tactics by Russia.

Russia is seeing an extraordinary surge of political arrests that has shaken the country’s ruling class. From senior judges and regional governors to associates of former Defence Minister Sergei ...

Russian authorities are considering a request from the New People's Party to offer political asylum to U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk, claimed the party's lawmaker, Vladislav Davankov, to the Russian ...

Whether a 14-year-old protester or an anti-war artist, anyone deemed critical of Putin's regime can be locked up for years in ...

The aging autocrats walked side by side, leading a procession of foreign leaders to watch a military parade in Beijing. Then, in a surprisingly candid moment, a hot mic caught President Vladimir Putin ...

The talks on Friday in Alaska pull the Russian leader out of diplomatic isolation from the West, and Ukrainian and European leaders fear it gives him an opening to sway the American president. By ...

Will the Solzhenitsyn of this century be an oil magnate? If soaring courtroom rhetoric has anything to do with it, maybe. Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky is awaiting judgment on the ...

Russia’s gift of the Pantsir-S1 to North Korea is a force multiplier for Pyongyang’s already massive air defense posture. Talk about the horrific gift that keeps on giving every year, all year round.