Putin’s escalating campaign against immigrants has tapped a well of ethnic hatred.

Moscow has warned Donald Trump against resuming the testing of nuclear weapons when he takes office, saying it would “not rule anything out” in response to US aggression.

Azerbaijani intelligence has blamed Russia for the crash, with Euronews reporting on intelligence from anonymous Azerbaijani government sources that said the plane was not given permission to land in Russia despite requesting an emergency landing.

A manufacturing plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region has significantly scaled up its production of Iranian-designed drones, using a range of Chinese components, and recruiting a low-skilled workforce of Russian teenagers and African women,

The State Department says an American schoolteacher arrested in Russia on drug charges more than four years ago has been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained.

The future of gas transit through Ukraine is at a turning point. If a last-minute deal isn’t struck by Wednesday, billions of cubic meters in gas flows could come to a halt.

Marc Fogel has been designated as "wrongfully detained" by the United States government, according to the U.S. Department of State.

Vladimir Putin says incident occurred in Russian airspace, but stops short of acknowledging Moscow’s possible role.

The Kremlins says Vladimir Putin has told Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev that Russian air defence was active when an Azerbaijani Airlines plane tried to land in Russia's south before it crashed.

From the largest war in Europe since World War II continuing in Ukraine to a series of escalations upending the Middle East, 2024 saw many powers rise and fall.