Russia

• May 23, 2025

  G7 Finance Ministers Agree To Increase Pressure On Russia If There Is No Cease-Fire In Ukraine

  Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven democracies agreed during a meeting in western Canada that Russia could face further sanctions if it resists a push toward a cease-fire in its war in Ukraine.

• May 23, 2025

  Trump Woke Up Europe, But His Ukraine Peace Push May Undermine China Strategy, Says Leon Aron

  Successive US administrations have long lobbied European allies to shoulder their fair burden for joint defense, but US President Donald Trump has taken a more bottom-line driven approach to NATO, publicly questioning why the United States should pay for the defense of rich European nations.

• May 23, 2025

  Russia Analyst: Trump Pushed Europe To Address ‘Delinquency’ In Defense

  US President Donald Trump’s stance toward NATO has “awakened” Europe to the need for a strong collective defense, according to Leon Aron, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. But the time it will take Europe to rearm opens a window for further aggression by Russia, he says.

• May 22, 2025

  Italian Court Gives Russian Lawyer 38-Month Prison Sentence For Role In Artyom Uss Escape

  An Italian court sentenced a Geneva-based Russian lawyer to 38 months in prison for his role in helping politically connected Russian businessman Arytom Uss flee house arrest from a Milan suburb two years ago.

• May 22, 2025

  Kremlin Says Russia, Ukraine 'Yet To Agree' On More Peace Talks As 2 Killed In Strikes On Donetsk

  Despite talk of renewed diplomacy, Russia and Ukraine have not scheduled further peace negotiations, a Kremlin spokesman said -- even as fresh Russian strikes in the Donetsk region killed two civilians and left others wounded in one of the war’s most violent hotspots.

• May 22, 2025

  EU Lawmakers Increase Pressure By Targeting Fertilizers From Russia And Belarus

  The European Union on May 22 took a major step forward in ending imports of Russian and Belarusian nitrogen-based fertilizer products into the bloc by approving a schedule of increases in duties aimed at making it economically unviable to buy such products within the next three years.

• May 22, 2025

  Russian Forces Detaining, Torturing Ukrainian Civilians In Moscow-Controlled Territories, Says Report

  Thousands of Ukrainians have been systematically abducted and tortured by Russian forces, says a report by the investigative journalism organization IStories.

• May 22, 2025

  A Burst Of Diplomacy Brings No Breakthrough On Russia’s War Against Ukraine. What’s Next?

  A flurry of diplomacy over Russia’s war against Ukraine, centered around the first direct peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow in three years and a long phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, ended this week without a breakthrough. Now what?

• May 22, 2025

  Russians Holding Thousands Of Ukrainian POWs And Civilians In Informal Cells

  Thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians are still being held in captivity in Russian-occupied areas, according to international observers, often held incommunicado for months or years. Torture is reportedly common.

• May 21, 2025

  In Italian Court, Another Verdict Looms In Saga Of Artyom Uss's Great Escape

  After Artyom Uss, a Russian businessman and son of a powerful Kremlin-connected governor, escaped from Italian house arrest two years ago, investigators spent months honing in on a motley Balkan crime gang that smuggled him home to Russia.

• May 21, 2025

  Ukrainian Former Yanukovych Adviser Andriy Portnov Reportedly Shot Dead In Spain

  Andriy Portnov, an adviser to former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, was shot dead on May 21 just outside of Madrid after dropping off his children at school.

• May 21, 2025

  Putin Makes Surprise Visit To Russia's Kursk Region Amid Accusations of Stalling Peace Talks

  President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to the Kursk region, his first since Russian troops pushed out Ukrainian troops who had been occupying parts of the region since launching an incursion last year.

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