Whether Donald Trump travels to Istanbul to join the May 15 talks between Russia and Ukraine will depend largely on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the meeting, CNN reports, citing a White House official.

In early February 2025, Russia launched a nationwide registry of “controlled individuals,” a system used to track foreign nationals deemed to be living in the country without legal status. Being added to the list comes with sweeping restrictions: individuals…

Volodymyr Zelensky says he will fly to Turkey and wait there for Vladimir Putin, aiming to resume direct negotiations on Thursday, May 15. If the Russian president shows up, U.S. President Donald Trump has said he’ll join, too. Put simply, what happens next…

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and presidential aide Yuri Ushakov will represent Russia at negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, a former senior Kremlin official told The Washington Post. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda had previously reported…

Western schemes to unravel Russia’s spiritual fabric have reached new depths, according to lawmaker Yana Lantratova, chair of the State Duma’s Public and Religious Associations Committee. At a plenary session on Tuesday, Lantratova described religion as Russia’s…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that he plans to meet in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Istanbul in an effort to “find a framework to end the war.”

Between early 2022 and April 2025, a total of 6,274 Russian men aged 18 to 45 with Russian citizenship applied for asylum in Germany. Of these, only 349 were granted refugee status, subsidiary protection, or protection under a deportation ban, Berliner Morgenpost…

The E.U. is getting ready to end tariff-free access for Ukrainian goods in the coming weeks, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing diplomatic sources.

A Moscow court has sentenced Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent election-monitoring group Golos, to five years in prison on charges of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization, Mediazona reported.

The question of how to handle Russia’s growing stray dog population has become a source of heated debate. Lawmakers recently shelved a bill that would have allowed shelters to euthanize homeless animals, following widespread backlash across the country. But…

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has arrested three Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of plotting bomb attacks, allegedly at the direction of Russian authorities, the agency said in a statement.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will not participate in the Russian–Ukrainian negotiations scheduled for Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, the newspaper Kommersant reported, without disclosing its source or providing further details. It remains unclear…

Since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it's become nearly impossible to “stay out of politics” in Russia. Militarization has permeated every corner of society — even the most intimate spheres, like the porn industry. Just three years ago…

In December 2022, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine concluded that Russian forces “summarily executed or carried out attacks on individuals” in the early weeks of their full-scale invasion, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians…

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree confirming the members of the Russian delegation for the talks with Ukraine scheduled for Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul. 

On April 4, 2025, a Russian missile strike on the city of Krivyi Rih killed nine children, most of whom were playing in a park. The U.N. Human Rights Office said the attack, which killed 20 people in total, was the deadliest single strike to claim children’s…

Russia launched an overnight wave of drone attacks across Ukraine, damaging homes and sparking fires, according to Ukrainian officials.

A sculpture of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has been unveiled in a passageway at the Taganskaya Metro Station in Moscow, architecture researcher Alexander Zinoviev reported on Thursday.

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher from Russia, has been charged with smuggling for attempting to bring frog embryos into the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts said.

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose not to attend talks in Istanbul because Trump himself did not go.