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A rift has developed between Russia and Azerbaijan, which have had long political, economic and cultural ties.

Russia controls nearly 19% of what is internationally recognised to be Ukraine, including Luhansk, plus over 70% of the ...

Vladimir Putin held a videoconference meeting on the socioeconomic development of the new Russian regions – the Donetsk ...

Sergey Ilyin, commander of Russia’s 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, has been killed in the war. A message announcing his ...

Russia has expressed its approval of the direct negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which took place in Abu Dhabi, ...

The Strasbourg court called out Russia’s flagrant disregard for the international legal order established after the Second ...

Deaths in custody, media offices raided, and beaten and bloodied suspects paraded in court — relations between Russia and ...

The European Court of Human Rights held Russia legally responsible for widespread abuses in eastern Ukraine and the downing ...

Trump's bombing of Iran and increased aggression toward Russia likely wasn’t the “America First” foreign policy agenda many Republicans were expecting.

In targeting a “reboot” of defence ties with a focus on joint missile development and nuclear co-operation, while also ...