Ukrainian military forces are making progress in their counteroffensive against Russia on the battlefield, breaking through an important defensive line, according to a top U.S. military official.

"I wish to be able to exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities," Mstyslav Chernov said, clutching his Oscar.

Poland's leading role in the European response to Russia's Ukraine invasion is fueling talk of a eastward shift in Europe's geopolitical center of gravity with the Polish-Ukrainian alliance set to...

Moscow says supplying arms capable of hitting Russian territory would be a step towards ‘unacceptable escalation’.

“Where Russia cannot do it by force of conventional weapons, it does so by force of energy weapons,” the Ukrainian president said in a video address.

Beyond logistical issues, the uneven flow of arms to Ukraine hints at differences among allies about whether Russia should be punished or eventually accommodated.

French President Emmanuel Macron said it is vital that Russia is not humiliated so that when the fighting stops in Ukraine a diplomatic solution can be found, adding that he believed Paris would play...

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the weapons used by Russia's military should be modernised.

The car that the suspected perpetrators of the March 22 Moscow terrorist attack allegedly used to flee the scene was stopped by police at around midnight that night, the independent outlet Mediazona...

Putin has used hard power to enforce Moscow’s sphere of influence. But the Ukraine war has caused him to lose out in regions he once sought to control.

In her New Year's message Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) said Finland can apply for Nato membership if it wants to.

RAND experts discuss the state of the conflict in Ukraine and its prospects, the war's global implications, possible outcomes and solutions, and what the West and the rest of the world might be doing...

Vladimir Putin fails to condemn attack on Israel, instead blaming the situation on failed US diplomacy

The Soviets reassembled the Russian Empire on the basis of ideology. He seeks to duplicate that feat.

The Russian president says it is not his aim to destroy Ukraine, despite recent heavy bombardments.

Despite promising a season of political freedoms, the authorities in Kazakhstan are cracking down on opposition activists as hard as ever

Georgia's Special Penitentiary Service has again barred former President Mikheil Saakashvili from attending his trial on embezzlement charges, saying it created a security risk.

Georgian Dream, a coalition funded by shadowy billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili who earned his fortune in Russia, has taken off its democratic mask. Its move to enact a repressive, Russian-style law has

The suspects, showing signs of being beaten, are charged with terrorism over Friday's concert hall massacre.

Thirteen Kazakh opposition and rights activists, including four women, have gone on trial for their alleged links with the banned opposition Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) movement and its...

Two senior Russian generals have not been seen in public since Wagner Group mercenary chief Yevengy Prigozhin rebelled against President Vladimir Putin's military commanders.

Demonstrators, railing against fuel hikes, tore down a statue of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev this week.

Senate Republicans blocked a major bipartisan border deal and foreign aid package with assistance for Ukraine and Israel in a key vote on Wednesday amid a torrent of attacks on the bill by former...

Georgia’s parliament is set to pass a highly controversial so-called “foreign agents” bill that has triggered widespread protests across the former Soviet Republic nestled in the Caucasus Mountains.

One drone was shot down while another exploded on its own, Crimea’s Russian-backed governor says.

Security measures have been beefed up in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, to prevent mass protests as the Central Asian country marks the 30th anniversary of independence.

Tourists are not traveling to Moscow because they think it’s too expensive and unsafe, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey obtained by Russia’s RBC news website on Tuesday.

The planned rollout of a "foreign influence" law went up in smoke and tear gas in part because the ruling Georgian Dream party underestimated domestic and international anger and mistrust.

Kazakhstan’s largest iron ore-enricher has cut supplies to a major steelworks in Siberia.

Kazakhstan’s president took a major swipe on January 11 at the legacy of his predecessor and mentor, the former strongman Nursultan Nazarbayev.

For Ukraine and the West, these parallels offer hope that Russia might lose the war in Ukraine or someday dial down its hostile stance.

Kazakh opposition activist Aset Abishev, who was jailed for supporting the activities of the banned Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan movement, has been released from a penal colony after serving more...

Former U.S. commander of coalition troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and ex-CIA Director David Petraeus says there should be no more deferring to Russia, as those past actions set the conditions that...

Yevgeny Prigozhin says his fighters have crossed the border from Ukraine into Russia.

Kazakh activist Erbol Eskhozhin has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison over alleged links to the banned Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) movement, as authorities continue to round up the...

Bidzina Ivanishvili has emerged from behind the curtains with a dark vision for the future of Georgia.

Russia's Unholy War: Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill has provided the ideological justification for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and Russian efforts to eliminate Ukrainian...

President Biden wants to avoid provoking Russia at a moment when American officials fear Vladimir V. Putin could escalate the war to compensate for recent losses.

The Kremlin is “concerned” about the possibility the U.S. might further expand sanctions on Russia, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

A Kazakh activist who said he was tortured and beaten while in custody earlier this year has been sent to pretrial detention on a charge of taking part in "mass disorders."

Putin has demanded swift acceptance of a proposed security deal that would bar Ukraine from ever joining NATO and rule out any other eastward expansion by the U.S.-led military alliance.

As Kazakhstan battles its way out of a bloody weeklong crisis, the authorities are working hard to push their own story about the unrest that has to date claimed dozens of lives.

Drones struck several buildings in the first attacks on civilian areas deep inside Russia since the invasion of Ukraine last year, as Kyiv spent another night under air assault.