The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Editorial: With talk of ‘holy’ conflict, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church is bringing the institution he heads into disrepute

French President Emmanuel Macron will next week make a new push to try and dissuade China's Xi Jinping from supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine but is unlikely to make a breakthrough on ending the conflict during the visit, observers say.

Lord Cameron on Friday backed Ukrainian strikes against targets inside Russia using British-supplied weapons.

Russian intelligence operations targeting dissidents abroad raise concerns about Kremlin's reach and suppression of opposition voices.

Xi Jinping heads to Europe on Sunday to defend China's "no limits" alliance with Russia, first to key Ukraine backer France, then to Serbia and Hungary, which have close ties to the Kremlin.

France’s Macron stands firm on potentially sending troops; sanctions on Russian gas leave Gazprom with record annual loss. What we know on day 800

£5.5bn loss in 2023 comes after gas sales more than halved following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Motorsport is one of the most expensive industries in the world as Red Bull paid a staggering $7,445,817 to enter the 2024 F1 season.  But costs are also high at a national level with teams paying up to £29,000 for a space on the British GT grid.  So it is…

May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.

A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The move marks a new stage in the Kremlin’s control of information by targeting a broad array of literature, a cultural domain that has long enjoyed a special latitude in…

The problem isn't the pollsters — it's incoherent public opinion, driven by nostalgia, stupidity and memory loss