PUTINS RE-ELECTION IS ASSURED. LET THE SUCCESSION FIGHT BEGIN.

The March 2018 presidential election in Russia is a sideshow to the real battle determining what comes after President Putins next term ends in 2024... READ MORE›

WHY PUTINS FOES DEPLORE U.S. FIXATION ON ELECTION MEDDLING

Ultimately, they say, Americans are using Russia as a scapegoat to explain the deep political discord in the United States... READ MORE›

TRUMP AND PUTIN EXPLORE MEETING ON SIDELINES OF ASIA SUMMIT

Their first encounter, during a summit of Western leaders, fueled speculation about Mr. Trump's seeming soft spot for his Russian counterpart... READ MORE›

TRUMP OFFERS PUTIN THANKS, NOT CRITIQUE, FOR THROWING OUT U.S. DIPLOMATS

Well save a lot of money, Mr. Trump said... READ MORE›

MAYBE PRIVATE RUSSIAN HACKERS MEDDLED IN ELECTION PUTIN SAYS

Moscow has been disappointed by Mr. Trump's failure so far to deliver on his election promises to get along with Russia... READ MORE›

PUTIN ADMIRED BY DONALD TRUMP EMPHASIZES STRENGTH AS VIRTUE

Ms. Gevorkyan granted the Russian president one indisputable asset, one that appalls Moscow intellectuals but enthralls admirers like Mr. Trump People elected him... READ MORE›

KEY PUTIN OPPONENT ARRESTED IN MOSCOW DURING ANTI-CORRUPTION PROTESTS

Some waved Russian flags, cloaking their opposition in the same patriotism that Mr. Putin has used so successfully to boost his popularity... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION IN ST PETERSBURG RUSSIA KILLS 11 AS VLADIMIR PUTIN VISITS

On Monday, a lull before the evening rush hour in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, where the subway normally carries two million people a day... READ MORE›

MERKEL PRESSES PUTIN ON TREATMENT OF GAYS AND JEHOVAHS WITNESSES

Germans have been among the staunchest supporters of the plan, while European capitals generally hostile to Moscow are opposed to increasing dependence on Russian gas... READ MORE›

VIDEO PRINCE WILLIAM PAYS TRIBUTE TO COMMONWEALTH WAR DEAD IN JAPAN

Nemtsov in Moscow in 2009 and praised him for his courageous dedication to the struggle against corruption in Russia... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN MILITARY USES SYRIA AS PROVING GROUND AND WEST TAKES NOTICE

Has become, in effect, a testing ground for an increasingly confrontational and defiant Russia under Mr. Putin... READ MORE›

TILLERSON SAYS RUSSIA MUST RESTORE UKRAINE TERRITORY OR SANCTIONS STAY

And Russian officials believed they had made progress in Mr. Putin's meeting with Mr. Trump... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAID TO BE PERFECTLY HEALTHY IS ALSO NOWHERE TO BE SEEN

Putin meeting with the president of Russia's Supreme Court, but since the video was not live, questions lingered... READ MORE›

RUSSIANS RIDICULE U.S. CHARGE THAT KREMLIN MEDDLED TO HELP TRUMP

He said the United States intelligence report on Russian meddling in the November election had gone too far in projecting Cold War attitudes onto today's reality... READ MORE›

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S MASSIVE, TRIPLE-DECKER WAR ROOM REVEALED

Russia showed off its brand new fortified, three-tiered, multibillion-dollar National Control Defense Center this week... READ MORE›

WHAT REVOLUTION RUSSIA ASKS 100 YEARS LATER

Lenin fomented appalling bloodshed and destroyed the Russian Orthodox Church, a pillar of Mr. Putin's support... READ MORE›

TRUMP ASKS PUTIN ABOUT MEDDLING IN US ELECTION

Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia, the only other official in the meeting, said Mr. Trump had accepted Mr. Putin's denial... READ MORE›

The only major United States antagonist not hurt by the drop in oil prices is North Korea, which imports all of its petroleum... READ MORE›

AS TILLERSON BEGINS RUSSIA TALKS PUTIN KEEPS HIM GUESSING

As Tillerson Begins Russia Talks, Putin Leaves Him Guessing... READ MORE›

Putin bullied and cajoled Bulgaria, one of the European Union's weakest nations, into doing Russia's bidding on South Stream... READ MORE›

RUSSIANS CALL TRUMP MEETING PUTIN A WIN, BUT DOUBT CONCRETE GAINS

Trump accepted Putin's words about Russia's noninterference in the American election... READ MORE›

THOUSANDS OF RUSSIANS PRESENT LETTERS OF PROTEST

Before Saturday, Open Russia announced that it had organized protests in about 30 cities... READ MORE›

NEWS ANALYSIS US ATTACK ON SYRIA CEMENTS KREMLINS EMBRACE OF ASSAD

The attack cemented Moscow more closely than ever to the notorious Syrian autocrat... READ MORE›

CONCERN FOR MISSING BOXING PROMOTER

Nemtsov had some materials that directly proved the participation of the Russian army in the Donbas war in Ukraine... READ MORE›

RUSSIANS FEEL RUBLES FALL BUT PUTIN REMAINS MOSTLY UNSCATHED

Mr. Putin's popularity ratings have remained high since last year's annexation of Crimea, which was wildly popular among Russians... READ MORE›

WITH TRUMP RUSSIA GOES FROM THURSDAYS FOE OF US TO FRIDAYS FRIEND

American voters have heard Mr. Trump praise Russia, and some in the far right have hailed Mr. Putin as a hero for espousing conservative values... READ MORE›

VIDEO PRINCE WILLIAM PAYS TRIBUTE TO COMMONWEALTH WAR DEAD IN JAPAN

Nemtsov in Moscow in 2009 and praised him for his courageous dedication to the struggle against corruption in Russia... READ MORE›

OBAMA AND PUTIN PLAY DIPLOMATIC POKER OVER SYRIA

Nor did Mr. Putin indicate that the Russian military buildup in Syria... READ MORE›

RUSSIA BOMBER IS IDENTIFIED OFFICIALS SAY AS DEATH TOLL RISES

The blast occurred just as the train departed the Sennaya Square station, one of the busiest transportation hubs in central St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city... READ MORE›

WATCH KANYE WEST S POP-UP CONCERT THAT SHUT DOWN THE STREETS OF NEW YORK

As the Russian military and separatist forces have pressed the attack, Western officials have become increasingly worried that Mr... READ MORE›

OBAMA AND PUTIN TO MEET NEXT WEEK WHITE HOUSE SAYS

Mr. Obama canceled a summit meeting with Mr. Putin that fall after Russia gave shelter to Edward J... READ MORE›

NEWS ANALYSIS CONFIRMATION OF ATTACK ON RUSSIAN JET MAY STRENGTHEN PUTINS RESOLVE IN SYRIA

Syria, now beleaguered, has been Russia's only Arab ally for decades, but Mr. Putin has also been courting President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt... READ MORE›

The number of intercepts of Russian military aircraft approaching Western airspace has tripled compared with 2013, British researchers said in November, citing NATO officials... READ MORE›