Russian butter prices are surging as Vladimir Putin prioritises defence spending over protecting his country from the impact of sanctions.

Food shortages and sparing prices have sparked widespread anger in Russia. A year ago, Mr Putin issued a rare apology after a pensioner publicly criticised the Russian leader about the price of eggs, ...

Russia is seeking an unfathomable sum of money from one of the world’s biggest tech companies. Google reportedly owes the Kremlin more than 2 undecillion rubles — a 2 followed by 36 zeroes ...

Western officials are investigating whether devices planted at shipping hubs in Europe may have been a test run by Russian operatives for placing them on planes bound for the U.S. By Michael ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Weapons supplies are no longer Ukraine’s ...

MOSCOW, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Russia has launched a power unit based on its first domestically produced high-capacity gas turbine, as it develops its own alternatives to Western technology it can no ...

Russia attacks Kharkiv Several people have been injured overnight after Russia launched multiwave air attacks on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region. Ukrainian military officials said two people ...

Russia’s ruble is on the slide toward 100 per dollar and this time the authorities appear resigned to letting it hit a level that previously provoked strong policy responses. A weaker ruble isn ...

US says 8,000 North Korean troops at Ukraine border expected in combat soon Blinken says North Korean troops expected to deploy into combat against Ukrainian forces ‘in the coming days’.

MOSCOW, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Authorities declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in a western region of Russia where Ukraine said it had struck a weapons arsenal overnight. The local branch of the ...

Russia has made slow but steady gains in recent weeks against Ukraine but at a steep cost — the bloodiest month in the nearly three-year war, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Casualties from the ...

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