But according to Russian state media, he’s been handed a poisoned chalice: front-line command of a notorious battalion of ex-prisoners that has suffered massive casualties in Ukraine.

Aleksei B. Smirnov, together with his deputy and other accomplices, was accused of embezzling money earmarked for building defenses that failed to prevent a Ukrainian attack in Kursk. By Ivan ...

Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the state-controlled media organization RT, made the comment during a live broadcast on channel Russia-1, where she appeared alongside longtime Kremlin ...

They’re going tit for tat. The state flag of Virginia has been banned in a Texas school district over the depiction of a Roman goddess with an exposed bare boob, according to a report.

The one who cheers for repression, worships the state and believes ... When the pro-Russian “Novorossiya” separatists in eastern Ukraine started waving a flag that looked suspiciously like ...

The Russian state-backed hacking group Gamaredon (aka “Shuckworm”) has been targeting a military mission of a Western country in Ukraine in attacks likely deployed from removable drives.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has shut down its office that sought to deal with misinformation and disinformation that Russia, China and Iran have been accused of spreading. Secretary ...

A Ukrainian rocket attack killed six people, including three Russian state media workers, in eastern Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Luhansk region, according to Russian news organisations and officials.

It’s tempting fate to roll into a battle in Ukraine while flying a giant flag from your armored vehicle. But that’s exactly what a Russian regiment did on Thursday as they attacked under the ...

A correspondent for the Russian state-controlled newspaper Izvestia and three members of a filming crew from the Russian Defense Ministry’s TV channel Zvezda were killed in a Ukrainian attack in the ...

Russian officials on Saturday accused “the special services of an unfriendly state” of planning and organizing last year's attack on the Moscow concert hall in which 145 people died.