Russia's friends — or frenemies — aren't all pariah states. Some of them enjoy good relations with the West, too.
The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia's Siberia region who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ever found.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
A Moscow court has on Tuesday sentenced a US citizen to 15 years in prison on espionage charges, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
North Korea and Russia are deepening their military cooperation, as Pyongyang ramps up the supply of arms to Moscow for its war in Ukraine and receives much needed cash and oil from the Kremlin in return.
Ukrainian officials say the bungled attempt to steal the remains was part of a continuing Russian effort to repatriate the remains of the Soviet war dead.
Giorgia Meloni made her remarks at a conference in Lapland in northern Finland to discuss Nordic region and Mediterranean security as well as migration challenges.
Russia has held several rounds of tactical nuclear weapons drills this year, and regularly carries out military exercises for its strategic nuclear forces.
The strikes ignited fires at the Kadamovsky range, a crucial training site for Russian troops heading into Ukraine.
Eugene Spector was already serving a sentence for a bribery conviction when he was charged with spying, for which a court ordered him to serve an additional 13 years.