Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed ties with Russia as a force for “calm amid chaos” during a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, days after Xi hosted President Donald Trump for a landmark US-China summit.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Security Council of Russia and the country’s former president, threatened European Union diplomats in Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv. “The EU has said it will maintain its diplomatic presence in Kiev unchanged,

Putin has gifted Kazakhstan four tigers, including two cubs, from the same endangered breed used by him in a botched PR stunt that left one of the big cats dead

The Kremlin has dramatically increased the personal security around President Vladimir Putin, installing surveillance systems in the homes of close staffers as part of new measures prompted by a wave of assassinations of top Russian military figures and fears of a coup,

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw the signing of over 40 cooperation agreements in trade, technology, and media on Wednesday and praised each other as friends.

Less than a week after Xi rolled out the red carpet for Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin arrived to a similar welcome — with telling differences in protocol, priorities and optics that hint at how China manages ties with Washington versus Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin tells banks and their staff to shoot down drones themselves under bizarre plan - Ukraine struck the central bank's office in Sevastopol in Crimea with a missile

May 26 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree providing debt relief to new Ukraine war recruits and their families, the Kremlin said late on Monday, adding to support tools as Moscow seeks to boost its army in more than four-year-long war.