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For all the fear of Russia these days in election meddling or the rollout of new weapons its leader, President Vladimir Putin, did not seem so fearsome during his first talks with the new president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. In fact, the power dynamic b…

Russia and Ukraine agreed on Monday to several steps for improving the situation around the war in eastern Ukraine at a major peace summit in Paris, but did not make any major breakthroughs for ending the conflict. The summit was held in the so-called "Norma…

* Man was killed in Berlin in August * Germany expelled Russian embassy staff * Putin hints Moscow may respond in kind * He says dead man was a militant fighter (Updates with Putin quotes) By John Irish and Margaryta Chornokondratenko Dec 10 (Reuters) - …

PARIS (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said a Georgian man murdered in Berlin in August was himself a killer who took part in bloody acts on Russian soil and that Moscow's requests for Germany to extradite him had not been heeded. Putin said he d…

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday met his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, for the first time ever at a Paris summit aimed at agreeing on measures to help end five years of conflict in the east of Ukraine.

While the pressure has been ratcheting up on Russia from the outside, inside the country there has been a propaganda campaign that has attempted to discredit the findings as just another Western plot. One Russian chat show described the revelations as an at…

(MINSK, Belarus) — The leaders of Russia and Belarus spent more than five hours Saturday in sensitive talks on deepening ties between the two allies — a meeting that triggered a protest in the Belarusian capital among those who fear Russia’s intentions. No i…

SOCHI, Russia—Gazing up at the bust of Joseph Stalin, the young boy listened silently as his mother squatted next to him, whispering the Soviet dictator’s story into his ear. The pair studied the black-colored sculpture, among many of Stalin in this city’s hi…

Either Muellers findings or the Ukraine drug deal, as Bolton reportedly called it, would merit impeachment on its own. But the urgency of Democrats impeachment process the subject of much bad-faith caterwauling on the right is best justified by Trumps recidiv…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Police at the spot in a Berlin park where the Chechen exile was shot dead The killing of a Chechen exile in the heart of Berlin will be investigated by the chief German prosecutor as a possible Russian intelligence operation…