Russia is set to loosen restrictions on how foreign countries pay for the fossil fuels they receive as economic sanctions continue to plague Vladimir Putin’s regime. The move comes after an ...

Uncertainty reigns over whether Russia can maintain control over its military bases in Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad which a lobbyist against Vladimir Putin has described as another ...

His comments may be seen as a sign that Putin could now want a political solution to the war which has left hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers dead or wounded, with similarly high ...

The Kremlin’s oil export revenues are too low to sustain a high-intensity war and nobody will lend Vladimir Putin a kopeck. Russia’s overheated, military-Keynesian war economy looks much like the ...

After overseeing 13 years of the devastation that has come to define Syria’s civil war, the country’s former president, Bashar al-Assad, has fled Damascus for Moscow. “Following his talks ...

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria represents a personal defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin and a potentially serious strategic setback for his military that undermines Moscow’s ...

The fall of the House of Assad deals a major blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aspirations as a Middle East power broker – and raises new questions about the fragility of his own regime.

Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the U.S. presidential election may not amount to a Miracle of the House of Putin, but it does give the Kremlin a boost in its war against Ukraine. Trump is skeptical ...

“They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever,” Trump wrote ...

Then there is the question of Mr Assad's foreign backers, primarily Russia and Iran. Vladimir Putin must surely be in crisis mode following the sudden vanquishing of an ally he had previously ...

The fall of Vladimir Putin’s ally Bashar al-Assad is “also our defeat”, according to Russian military bloggers. Russia has used Syria to establish itself in the Middle East over the last ...