Touting new weapons tests, Moscow signals to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate.

Dr Yury Baranchik, a prominent Russian geopolitical commentator, has advised Vladimir Putin to strike a British warship with nuclear weapons

Vladimir Putin tightens grip on power by promoting family members and younger allies to his inner circle as economic strain and opposition threats mount in Russia.

The United States cancelled a planned Budapest summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin following Russia's firm stance on hardline demands regarding Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Though Trump said his October 16 call with Putin was “very productive”, the Russian leader annoyed his US counterpart by extolling Moscow’s supposed battlefield successes near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk and the Oskil river, said two people briefed on their conversation.

North Korea's top diplomat has visited the Kremlin for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting follows last month's meeting between Putin and Kim Jong Un in Beijing.

There is "no need" for a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Nov. 2. "Hypothetically speaking, (a meeting) is possible,

Russian President Vladimir Putin is now believed to be more dug in than ever, according to a recent intelligence assessment.

Russian lawmakers have endorsed a bill mandating year-round military conscription, rather than just in the spring and fall, as authorities seek to fill the ranks as fighting in Ukraine grinds through a fourth year.

The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on a kleptocratic ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was removed this month as president of the Serb territory within Bosnia and Herzegovina for chipping away at the US-brokered peace deal that ended bloody ethnic violence in the Balkans in the 1990s.