Russia is not fighting the dollar or abandoning it but is compelled to seek alternatives, Putin said during the BRICS summit in Kazan. He noted that the dollar is being used as a weapon, calling this ...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of ...

Mastercard and Visa halted operations in Russia. Most Russian banks take only US dollars or euros to exchange for rubles.

The $3 billion U.K. loan for military resources will be paid for by the profits generated from frozen Russian assets.

The Russian leader wants to cast himself as a global statesman, even as the U.S. and its Western allies try to isolate him.

Yet in the city of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan on the banks of the Volga River, leaders of some 20 countries have ...

South Africa sees Russia as a valued ally, President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a bilateral meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin ...

Russia appears to be closing in on one of its objectives in Ukraine, according to a recent report from the Institute for the ...

Donald Trump secretly sent COVID tests to Vladimir Putin during the initial outbreak of coronavirus in 2020, despite a US-wide shortage, a wide-ranging book by Washington Post reporter Bob ...

It was a stunning way to turn the tables on Vladimir Putin, who has occupied around 18% – just over 100,000 sq km – of Ukrainian land for the best part of the last two and a half years.

The Russian president sought the opinions of shamans before launching his invasion of Ukraine (Picture: AFP) Vladimir Putin has a ‘special attitude to mysticism and even consulted shamans before ...

Vladimir Putin, 71, meanwhile has, what Kremlin insiders call a 'special attitude to mysticism' and a deep belief in shamanism – that individuals can communicate with the spirit world.