The Latest Breaking News from Russia

After a one-day summit in Beijing, the European Union insisted on the need to immediately rebalance trade relations with China.

A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in a remote area of Russia's far eastern Amur region on Thursday, killing all on board, authorities said.

Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul on July 23 for a third round of talks since face-to-face negotiations resumed in May. Expectations were low. Two previous rounds have yielded very few concrete results, apart from agreements on prisoner exchanges and the return of the bodies of soldiers killed in action.

The latest talks in Istanbul were followed by more prisoner exchanges, but yielded no breakthrough in ending the war.

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European officials accuse China of ‘enabling Russia’s war economy’

The clock is ticking.

Opponents of a new law in Ukraine, which they claim undermines anti-corruption watchdogs, have called for a third day of protests

Russia launched several attacks at Ukraine, killing three and injuring several others. It comes a day after Moscow and Kyiv sat together for a third round of peace talks.

Local officials in Russia say the wreckage of a plane that crashed while carrying 49 passengers has been found in the country's Far Eastern Amur region