The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

Norway is not breaching a century-old treaty covering the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by blocking Russian cargo to the islands, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday after Moscow threatened retaliatory measures. "Norway does not violate the Svalbard Treaty," foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt told AFP. "Norway does not try to put…

NATO is facing rebukes from Moscow and Beijing after it declared Russia a “direct threat” and said China posed “serious challenges” to global stability

Ukraine news from June 30: Russia using old Soviet stocks for more than half of all strikes in Ukraine, says General.

144 Ukrainian soldiers have been released, including 95 who defended the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol

The Russian Embassy to Sofia said on Wednesday that Bulgaria's decision to expel 70 Russian diplomatic staff was a hostile action to which Moscow would respond accordingly.

Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province, as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 in the center of the country two days earlier. Moscow’s battle to wrest the entire Donbas region from…

Witness accounts and expert analysis discredit Moscow’s claim fire spread from factory to empty mall

Trade through Lithuania to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad could return to normal within days, two sources familiar with the matter said, as European officials edge towards a compromise deal with the Baltic state to defuse a row with Moscow.

Russian multi-millionaire Yevgeny Palant was found stabbed to death in his home near Moscow - initial reports claim it was a murder-suicide triggered by jealousy but friends think he was murdered