Russian business leaders are backing legislation that would stop Western companies one day returning to the market they left after the Ukraine invasion.

Europe and the United States are more aligned than some headlines suggest—but they have different perceptions of the threat.

Vladimir Putin, the 72-year-old Russian dictator, hates admitting to having any health failings and snapped back when an eye surgeon dared to tell him: "Even the best car needs a technical inspection.

By Andrew Osborn and Alexander Marrow (Reuters) -Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Iran's president over the phone on Friday that Moscow condemned Israeli actions against Tehran, and in a separate telephone conversation told Israel's prime minister that only diplomacy could resolve issues around Iran's nuclear programme.

A Russian economist has warned that the country may slide into "stagflation" by the end of the year if its leaders don't take action.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Russia’s so-called peace proposal as a deliberately deal-breaking ultimatum and expressed scepticism about the Kremlin propaganda’s claims about the Russian Church in Ukraine.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that special attention in the country's new arms programme should be paid to the nuclear triad - land-based, sea-based and aircraft-launched weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed many people in the U.S. agree with Russia's "traditional" views on family, gender, and culture, suggesting that support for these values is growing in the West. Putin spoke with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, who presents the program Moscow. Kremlin. Putin on state media channel Russia-1.