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Estonia has accused Russia of creating a "serious threat" to NATO in the Baltic Sea after a Russian fighter jet disrupted operations by the Estonian Navy to inspect an unflagged tanker that is on the United Kingdom's sanctions list.
Russian prosecutors have charged a man in connection with a Moscow suburb car bombing that killed a Russian general, alleging he had been paid by Ukrainian intelligence services.
A senior Russian military officer was killed when a car exploded on the street of a Moscow suburb as he was walking past it, Russia's Investigative Committee said, the second several high-ranking military official killed near their residence in the past four months.
Russian journalist Yekaterina Barabash, who faces up to 10 years in prison for criticizing the military, is the subject of an arrest warrant after she disappeared while under house arrest.
Russia’s Supreme Court removed Afghanistan's militant Taliban rulers from its list of banned terrorist groups in a step toward recognizing the group that seized power in 2021 as international forces withdrew from the war-torn country.
Russia and the United States are to resume talks on April 10 in Istanbul on the normalization of their respective diplomatic missions.
An advert for Moscow’s new recruitment center offers touchy-feely encouragement to new recruits, while press gangs use brute force to round up potential soldiers.
Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on April 3 that he saw a "positive dynamic" in relations between Moscow and Washington, but differences remain, and several more meetings are needed to resolve them.
Russian law enforcement officers raided the Yekaterinburg residence of Mikhail Volkov, the father of prominent opposition politician Leonid Volkov, a key ally of late Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.
Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Washington to meet with US officials as part of President Donald Trump’s push to press for a cease-fire in the war in Ukraine, US media reports said on April 2.
The Kremlin said Kirill Dmitriev, the chief of Russia's sovereign wealth fund and President Vladimir Putin's special envoy, may visit Washington this week for talks with US President Donald Trump's administration on bilateral relations and peace talks over Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone strikes overnight, as Russian forces increased the intensity of attacks on the ground.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Ukraine could be placed under a form of temporary international administration to allow for elections and the signing of key accords.
US envoy Steve Witkoff says the status of the Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia is central to ending the war between Moscow and Kyiv.
Russian drone strikes targeted civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, leaving at least three people injured and several districts of the city battling power cuts while Czech President Petr Pavel was visiting the city for talks with officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a delegation from Kyiv will hold talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia next week even as Ukraine and Russia traded air strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia hit energy infrastructure in Ukraine just hours after President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump he would halt such strikes, as he warned of a "long path" to a cease-fire in the war on Ukraine.
Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack that struck Moscow and the Moscow region overnight, killing at least one person and causing damage to residential buildings and infrastructure as diplomats from Washington and Kyiv prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia.
The United States has detained people in five separate cases over the past two years for exporting or attempting to export planes, parts, and components to Russia, whose fleet of Boeing and Airbus passenger jets faces growing problems as supplies of parts and availability of maintenance dry up.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which marks its third year on February 24, has been a geopolitical earthquake, shaking the decades-old international order. The ramifications for Russian citizens have been far from uniform, differing sharply by region and social group, among other factors.
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