Russia claims to have captured the strategically important Ukrainian town of Velyka Novosilka, as Vladimir Putin’s forces ...

President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year address that Russia would ... free and strong – was able to respond to the most difficult challenges,” he said. The televised New Year’s Eve speech, ...

His inauguration speech was loudest in its silence on Ukraine. But hours later, US President Donald Trump laid bare – in a ...

Putin told Russians in his New Year’s Eve address on Tuesday that ... and absorbs diplomatic blows abroad. Much of his short speech was characterized by omissions. While Mr. Putin on Tuesday ...

Putin was named acting president on New Year's Eve in 1999, when predecessor Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and apologised for the country's post-Soviet turmoil in a speech that stunned Russians.

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping share a broad world view, which portrays the West as decadent and in decline as China ...

Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday for a second term in the White House, and international figures across the globe are sharing their reactions to the 47th president's inauguration. Here's ...

US president offers Putin chance to negotiate peace as Volodymyr Zelensky demands American troops join Western peacekeeping ...

his first speech as president resurfaced showing a slew of broken promises and the emergence of a very different leader. A quarter of a century ago on New Year’s Eve, Putin was entrusted with ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated United States President-elect Donald Trump on his inauguration and told him that Moscow was "open for dialogue" with the new administration over the ...

President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year address ... the most difficult challenges,” he said. The televised New Year’s Eve speech, which continues a tradition started by Soviet leader ...

President Vladimir Putin praised his country’s achievements in a New Year’s Eve speech Tuesday, saying Russians should be “proud” of what Russia had done during his quarter century in power.