Moscow and Washington are discussing the possible resumption of Russian gas supplies to Europe as part of broader negotiations over a potential peaceful settlement in Ukraine, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday.

Schooling in Russia continues to grow more politicized. On the one hand, there’s a strong emphasis on patriotism: in the Education Ministry’s “patriotic” lesson series, Important Conversations, the curriculum focuses on “love for the motherland"; in some…

The U.K. government has announced its most extensive sanctions package targeting Russia’s “shadow fleet” — a network of ships used to evade sanctions on the sale of Russian oil.

On May 9, Russia marks Victory Day — the anniversary of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. But as it has for the past three years, the country’s own war of aggression against Ukraine casts a long shadow over the celebrations. Ahead…

On Friday, Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, rekindling debates over who deserves the most credit today for ending the war. The Kremlin has made the USSR’s defeat of Hitler a central pillar of its contemporary…

During talks with China’s Xi Jinping on the eve of Victory Day, Vladimir Putin once again underscored the scale of Soviet losses in World War II. “The Soviet Union gave 27 million lives,” he said. “It laid them at the altar of the fatherland and the altar…

Amid an accelerating push by Ukraine and its Western allies to secure a 30-day ceasefire with the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has proposed that Kyiv resume direct negotiations with Moscow. Putin said the direct talks could begin “without delay or any preconditions”…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will travel to Turkey, where talks with Russia could take place on May 15 — even if Moscow refuses to agree to a ceasefire beforehand, Axios reported, citing a Ukrainian official.

Russian forces launched 108 strike drones and decoy UAVs at Ukraine overnight on May 12, according to the Ukrainian Air Force Command.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, announced Sunday that the State Duma plans to begin reviewing a bill in mid-May that would “tighten administrative liability for those residing abroad.”

Russian propagandists still haven't kicked their nasty habit of accusing foreign leaders of doing cocaine. Late last week, when a video of the French, British, and German leaders on a train to Kyiv appeared to show a small white bag, Internet users quickly…

Russian journalist Irina Pankratova passed away after a prolonged illness on May 10. She was 39 years old.

Poland has decided to close the Russian consulate in Kraków, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski announced on Monday.

In 2025, the Kremlin is marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany with particular fanfare. One of the centerpiece projects is the “SVO Museum,” a new exhibition in Moscow dedicated to Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.…

On Monday, a Moscow court heard closing arguments in the criminal case against Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent election-monitoring group Golos. He faces up to six years in prison for allegedly organizing the activities of an “undesirable”…

On Monday, a London court sentenced six Bulgarian nationals to prison on charges of spying for Russia, the BBC reports. Orlin Rusev, the group’s leader, got the longest sentence: 10 years and eight months. The others received prison terms ranging from five…

In the city of Cherkessk, in Russia’s North Caucasus, near the border with Georgia, a court has sentenced Alexey Safonov, the former traffic police chief of Stavropol Krai, to 20 years in prison for running an organized criminal group, accepting bribes, and…

European leaders plan to press U.S. President Donald Trump to make good on his threat of new sanctions against Russia if Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul on May 15 or fails to agree to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire…

Donald Trump has “issued an ultimatum” to Russia and Ukraine, saying that Washington will leave the negotiating table if they don’t engage in direct talks soon, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff told Breitbart in an interview published Monday.

The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has formally found Russia responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, the Dutch Foreign Ministry announced.