The country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of ...

President Alexander Lukashenko’s opponents are imprisoned or exiled abroad by his unrelenting crackdown on dissent and free ...

The prime minister of Poland has warned that Russia is plotting “air terror” against the West, following the discovery of incendiary devices on cargo planes across Europe. “All I can say – and I will ...

HAS VLADIMIR PUTIN QUIETLY ACQUIRED a new imperial possession in the heart of Europe, embedded within the EU and NATO? The suggestion may sound hyperbolic, but reports from Bratislava are becoming ...

Despite exorbitant losses and the need to ask North Korea and Iran for help, President Vladimir Putin shows no sign of giving up the fight. Russia has lost many of its most modern tanks ...

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico reportedly disappeared after meeting Vladimir Putin - but has resurfaced two weeks later. Mr Fico, 60, has been seen in a luxury hotel in Vietnam, weeks after ...

Putin sends General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to organise the fight back before Donald Trump forces peace negotiations Russia’s defence ministry may believe its forces are “defeating” Ukraine’s ...

Dysfunction in the Russian military, with Mr Putin as its de facto commander-in-chief, is another. But US president Joe Biden has sent the final military package of his tenure to Ukraine ...

In a blow for Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Defence said the Russian Central Bank (CBR) is still struggling to tackle high inflation. Interest rates are at 21% - compared to 4.75% in Britain ...

He has repeated the claim often, saying it would be contingent on his sitting down with Vladimir Putin, the Russian aggressor, and Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. He also claimed ...

Photo shows Vladimir Putin, at a press conference, holding his hand up to his head like a telephone. The Russian president says "the other side" of negotiations will need to compromise to bring an ...