After sanctions hobbled production at its assembly plant in Kaliningrad, the Russian automaker Avtotor announced a lottery for free 10-acre plots of land — and the chance to buy seed potatoes &m...
By Patricia Cohen and Valeriya Safronova
in London
The former chancellor has come under heavy criticism for refusing to distance himself from Russia and Vladimir Putin. Now the German government is planning to take away his office and staff, without t...
Russia said on Wednesday it was expelling a total of 85 embassy staff from France, Spain and Italy in response to similar moves by those countries, highlighting the damage to relations with leading EU...
The Ukrainian authorities announced late on Monday an end to their combat operation in the besieged city of Mariupol, where Ukrainian fighters have held out for weeks in the face of near-constant Russ...
By Valerie Hopkins, Ivan Nechepurenko, Marc Santora
in Kyiv
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that there was no threat to Russia if Sweden and Finland joined Nato but cautioned that Moscow would respond if the US-led alliance bolstered military infrastru...
After more than three decades in Russia, McDonald’s — an icon of US lifestyle and capitalism — is selling its Russia business as it looks to leave the country completely.
The move i...
The decision to join the defense alliance was endorsed by Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin earlier this week.
Finland's ruling Social Democrats backed a proposal on...
The trial of a Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian opened Friday, the first war crimes trial since Moscow's invasion of its neighbor.
Scores of journalists packed inside a sma...
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Ukrainian officials have said a new effort is underway to try and secure the evacuation of soldiers remaining in the Azovstal steelworks complex in Mariupol.
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The US believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for a long conflict in Ukraine and a Russian victory in the Donbas in the east of the country might not end the war, US director of n...
By Reuters, New York Times News Service
in Washington