Lithuania, a tiny nation of 2.8 million people, has been ramping up military spending and exercises in response to the growing threat from Moscow

Russian heavy metal and goth music fans in Russia could face prison after Vladimir Putin banned "satanists". The Kremlin's top court has outlawed the "international satanism movement" as an extremist and terrorist group - despite no such group existing.

Russia has scaled down its Navy Day celebrations due to security concerns from ongoing Ukrainian drone attacks. Authorities canceled warship parades in St.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has just 37 days to meet President Trump’s deadline for a deal to end the Ukraine war. But Moscow appears unfazed, as its forces continue to pummel Kyiv. Fareed discusses the situation with Alina Polyakova,

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a strange explanation for the cancellation of the country's main naval parade in Saint Petersburg. He said that the Day of the Russian Navy is better celebrated "in combat conditions,

President Vladimir Putin joined mourners on Thursday to say farewell to his former classmate Irina Podnosova, the head of Russia's Supreme Court, who died earlier this week aged 71.

For Mr Medinsky, spreading that message comes naturally. He has spent decades peddling a nationalist ideology that casts Russia as a great power, much maligned and mistreated by the West. He described the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 as a “gathering of Russian lands” and co-wrote a set of history textbooks,

President Donald Trump insisted Friday that a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “will happen," even as the Kremlin ruled out talks between the two leaders in the near term.