The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Russian-installed health officials in Crimea say private clinics on the Moscow-annexed peninsula have “voluntarily” stopped providing abortions, which means that the procedure is now only available there in state-run medical facilities

After the mysterious death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin is urging mercenaries to sign contracts and swear allegiance to Russia

Russia has pulled out of an important cold war-era treaty which limited categories of conventional military equipment that Nato and the then-Warsaw Pact could deploy. The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) was intended to use the warming of relations between east and west to minimise the…

Numerous attacks have targeted Moscow-installed officials in the Ukrainian regions to which Russia lays claim.

A senior Chinese military official is visiting Moscow and is hailing strong ties between the countries during a trip that underlined growing cooperation between them

Diplomacy is not doing well in the latest swirl of international crisis. The shells and rockets fall on Gaza, despite pleas for a “humanitarian pause” to let aid in for stricken families. In Moscow, Vladimir Putin this week officially ditches the nuclear test ban and conventional forces treaties.

NATO allies have frozen their participation in a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s withdrawal from the pact

The Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe is aimed at preventing the massing of forces at or near mutual borders

Announcing formal exit, Moscow says expansion of US-led NATO had made the pact untenable.