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Vladimir Putin, who flew to Mariupol by helicopter, drove around city and stopped to talk to residents, TASS reports.

Russian state media reported that one person died and two people were injured in the fire.

US releases footage of drone incident over Black Sea; Moscow says it will attempt to retrieve wreckage of US drone from water

A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a US military surveillance drone on Tuesday, causing the US to crash the drone into the Black Sea, the Pentagon said. Russia denied striking the drone. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris…

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday that relations between Russia and China were a major factor supporting global stability in the world today, the TASS news agency reported. "Bilateral relations between our countries have reached a new, unprecedented level and have become a major factor supporting global stability…

Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to travel to Russia to meet with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter said, which would be sooner than previously expected. Plans for a visit come as China has been offering to broker peace in Ukraine,…

Yevgeny Prigozhin thanks Kremlin for ‘heroic’ production increase but says concerns about shortages remain. This blog is now closed

Russia is working on easing visa procedures for six countries, including India, Syria and Indonesia, the state TASS news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Evgeny Ivanov as saying on Sunday.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — There’s always an element of the surreal at arms fairs. You catch it in the chipper tone of salespeople hawking new instruments of destruction; in the euphemisms — “defense” instead of “warfare,” “weapons platforms” rather than “guns” — sprinkled throughout glossy brochures; in the…

A court in Belarus on Friday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported, a verdict likely to be strongly condemned by Western human rights groups.

A new team of monitors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog has taken up its duties at Ukraine's Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station at the fourth attempt, a Russian official told TASS news agency on Thursday.