The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

For years, Russian billionaires have had a huge presence in the art world, whether as collectors, benefactors ot board members. Now, however, the glitz has worn off

Russia’s Finance Ministry said that it has sent payment orders for the interest on its dollar bonds to its correspondent bank, giving incremental details on a debt settlement that has come to exemplify how Moscow plans to handle its future relations with creditors.

Two-time gold medalist, currently reading Russian novelist FM Dostoevsky and a biography of the Rolling Stones, will be in pre-trial detainment until at least 19 May

Schwarzenegger was the first Western actor to make a film in Moscow

For decades Russia has, more than any other country, aided China's dramatic military modernisation with weapons and technology - and now Beijing has plenty that Moscow needs as its Ukraine invasion continues, military analysts say.

Russians who fled urgently after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and crackdown at home are unsure if they will ever return, and what their nation may look like, reports Borzou Daragahi in Istanbul

Thousands more refugees crossed into Eastern Europe on Thursday, many hoping that peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv may end the war soon, though more people were expected to flee in the days ahead.

Moscow has invested in domestic fast-food chains after McDonald’s shut its restaurants in Russia

Moscow forced to introduce damage-limitation measures to control economy as ruble crashes to historic low in response to hard-hitting penalties for Ukraine invasion

Despite three weeks of Russian bombardment, Ukraine has kept up a stiff defense of its cities by using Turkish-made drones to carry out pop-up attacks on the invaders with a lethal effectiveness that has surprised Western military experts. The Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles, which carry lightweight, laser-guided bombs, normally…

Uzbekistan, a Central Asian republic with close ties to Russia, called on Thursday for a diplomatic resolution of the conflict in Ukraine and said it would not recognise Moscow-backed separatist statelets there.