“What could be more inhuman?” Before dawn on Wednesday, Russia directed more than 70 cruise and ballistic missiles and 100 strike drones, Ukrainian officials said. As rescue workers and energy repair crews raced to assess the damage in the ...

Russia's inflation has reached 9.5% this year, according to new weekly data showing that the consumer price index rose by 0.33% in the week leading up to Dec. 23, the statistical agency Rosstat reported on Wednesday.

Pope Francis has called for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to end the war triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In his traditional Christmas Day address, the Pope said "boldness [was] needed to open the door" to dialogue "in order to achieve a just and lasting peace" between the two sides.

Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the start of the 1980s.

A Russian court case involving a compensation claim against Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) will continue in the second half of January, judicial authorities and the lender said on Wednesday.

Russia has held several rounds of tactical nuclear weapons drills this year, and regularly carries out military exercises for its strategic nuclear forces.

Russia is ready to continue gas exports to Europe through several routes just as a contract to transit the fuel via Ukraine is expected to end this year, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.

Zelensky warns of greater military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang, including sending more troops and military equipment

The ship, built in 2009, sank after an explosion ripped through its engine room and two of its 16 crew were missing, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. Oboronlogistika had previously said that the ship had been en route to the Russian far eastern port ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport close to the Caspian Sea on Wednesday morning.

Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.