The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Ukraine launches drone attacks on Russia during presidential vote; Russian forces retaliate. Conflict escalates with casualties and cross-border raids.

Russia began three days of voting Friday in a presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule for six more years after he stifled dissent.

Ukraine said Friday that Russian forces had pounded the Black Sea port city of Odesa with missiles, killing more than a dozen people including a paramedic and a rescue worker.

Russia is increasing its influence in Burkina Faso, where disillusionment with French politics has left a void.

Putin forever? Russia's president goes into this week's election with no serious contenders, cementing his already quarter-century hold on the Kremlin through at least 2030.

Russian president’s all but guaranteed fifth term in power comes as economy has outperformed expectations.

The president will use his inevitable win in the polls as a mandate for continuing the assault on Ukraine and going after domestic ‘elites’

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April WTI crude oil (CLJ24 ) is up +1.54 (+1.99%), and Apr RBOB gasoline (RBJ24 ) is up +0.0698 (+2.70%). Oil prices are higher today on a bullish U.S. EIA weekly inventory report and on Ukrainian drone strikes on three Russian refineries. Rosneft's Ryazan refinery near Moscow was set ablaze...

Baltic country’s state security says assault on Leonid Volkov was probably to stop Russian opposition influencing election