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The Pentagon is flatly rejecting Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s claim that American military contractors are smuggling chemicals into eastern Ukraine to incite a “provocation.” Shoigu’s comments came during a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with the country’s top military officials and President Vladimir Putin,

Russia's newest diesel-electric submarine Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky has successfully test-launched a Kalibr cruise missile from the Sea of Japan, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The missile was fired from underwater and hit a coastal target in Russia at a distance of over 1,

Temperatures are forecast to fall below zero degrees Celsius in several European capitals this week, straining electricity grids already coping with low wind speeds and severe nuclear outages in France.

Temperatures are forecast to fall below zero degrees Celsius in several European capitals this week, straining electricity grids already coping with low wind speeds and severe nuclear outages in France.

Listed telecoms giant Veon has found a new group general counsel from among the in-house ranks of its Russian telecoms brand Beeline Russia to succeed longstanding GC Scott Dresser. Victor Biryukov will relocate from Moscow to join the Amsterdam-based company at the start of next year from a role as executive …

The main global game now is Russia-China relations: the ability of the United States to control or influence the world order is fading fast. Russian and Chinese leaders seem currently relaxed about East-West summitry as Western security elites desperately play catch-up,

NATO will discuss Russia's security proposals but it will not let Moscow dictate the alliance's military posture, German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Sunday on a visit to German troops based in Lithuania to deter a Russian attack.

Cruz agreed to lift his holds on 32 nominees in exchange for the Senate voting in early January on his legislation to sanction the pipeline.

Chairman Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin met virtually this week. The resulting message was clear: “The West should not underestimate China and Russia’s ability to protect each other’s core security concerns.

Tatyana Bakalchuk is a rarity – a dotcom billionaire uninterested in outside capital or a stock market listing. The founder of Wildberries, Russia's largest ecommerce retailer, has made it to the top of Forbes' list of Russia's richest women without any help from external investors,