Vladimir Putin

Ukrainian singer Jerry Heil and rapper alyona alyona spoke about promoting their war-torn country’s music, culture and freedom as they set off to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest.

‘Serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield’ for Ukraine, said Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Kyiv on Monday.

While the assessment didn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for the death, it found that the timing possibly wasn’t as intended by Putin, the WSJ report said.

Observers say Ukraine will be high on the agenda when Chinese President Xi Jinping travels to France, Serbia and Hungary next month, while the West will be watching Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s visit to China for signs Beijing is supporting Moscow’s war efforts.

Trip would be the long-time leader’s first abroad since his re-election, amid Western claims that China is propping up Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.

Moscow vetoed a resolution to prevent an orbital arms race, prompting the US to ask if Russia was hiding something.

The largest Asian countries, notably China but also India, should be poised to play a positive role if the winds change around the Ukraine war

It is the Russia’s highest-profile corruption case since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022

The Russian president ‘frightens people, he keeps them in fear’, said Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the dissident who died in a Siberian prison camp in February, in an interview.

Exchanges between people are ‘as important’ as political relations between countries, analyst says.

Chen Wenqing, who oversees police and intelligence, will go to Moscow for international security meeting a month after terror attack rattles Russia and ahead of anticipated visit by Vladimir Putin.

Legislation comes amid alarm in Washington over volume of material moving from Beijing to Moscow and said to be turning up on battlefields in Ukraine.

The BBC found that more than 27,300 Russian soldiers died during the second year of the war, a 25-percent increase on the first year.

The Ukraine president says China could play a role in securing an end to the war, as he seeks Beijing’s backing for a peace summit in Switzerland.

Analysts say China has long called for a ceasefire anyway, whereas any demand that it explicitly condemn Russia is likely to fail.

The world’s largest-volume Dutch-built superyacht, with facilities which include a swimming pool and helipad, Launchpad was commissioned by billionaire Vladimir Potanin, who is subject to US sanctions

Warmer weather has allowed Russia to ramp up its assaults in the region, as tanks can now more easily move across previously muddy terrain.

March 22 attack in Moscow killed at least 144 people, the deadliest in Russia in 20 years.

Switzerland on Wednesday announced that a high-level conference on the Ukraine conflict would be held on June 15-16, but without Russia.

‘Patriot’, a memoir the Kremlin critic began working on in 2020, will be published in October.

Ukraine’s parliament passed a bill to overhaul the rules governing how the military mobilises civilians into its ranks as the war rages on with no end in sight.

Moscow’s ‘carrot-and-stick’ tactic with Tokyo over the peace agreement goes back decades, analysts say, after a Kremlin spokesman dredged up the Cold War-era strategy in an effort to drive a wedge between the US and Japan.

Xi Jinping tells Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Beijing is prepared to step up coordination with Moscow through Brics and the SCO.

Those on trial include the owners of the Mossack-Fonseca law firm that was at the heart of the 2016 massive document leak. The often-delayed trial opened in Panama on Monday.

Russia warned of ‘unprecedented’ flooding in coming days as locals in a city partially submerged by rising waters took to the streets in rare protest at the authorities’ handling of the crisis.

Top diplomat will meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to discuss Ukraine, the Asia-Pacific and other issues, Russian foreign ministry says.

Washington unveiled plans for the resolution amid reports Moscow could deploy a nuclear weapon or a mock warhead into space as early as this year.

Nato anniversary comes as the now-32-nation alliance weighs a plan to provide more predictable longer-term military support to Ukraine.

Bolstered by a new six-year term in power and attempting to blame Kyiv for Russia’s worst terror attack in two decades, Putin’s committed to pursue his war goals.