Trump has argued that the Arctic island is critical for U.S. security given threats posed by Russia as well as China.

As tensions simmered between the United States and Europe this week over President Donald Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, Russian officials, state-backed media and pro-Kremlin bloggers responded with a mixture of glee,

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to donate $1 billion in U.S. dollars from its sovereign assets frozen in the United States to President Donald Trump's Board of Peace and commit an unspecified amount for the restoration of Ukraine.

Mr Putin praised Russia’s constructive role in Latin America and the Middle East. He made no mention of America’s armed forces having abducted Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, a Russian ally whom he had welcomed in the Kremlin eight months earlier—much less of how easily they had knocked out Venezuela’s Russian-built air defences.

Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula received nearly 7 feet of snow.

A former Austrian intelligence official pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that include handing over sensitive devices and selling secret information to Russia.On the first day of his trial in Vienna,

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Russia's Far East was buried under metres of snow by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years on Tuesday as a winter blast swept across Asia, dusting Shanghai white and grounding flights in Japan's northwest.

Ukraine nuclear facilities face Russian attack threats as Moscow weighs strikes on power substations to force capitulation, officials say. Zaporizhzhia is a primary target.