Firefighters put out a fire at a private house following a Russian drone attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko) ...

Special forces from Russia’s National Guard (Rosgvardia) recently conducted military exercises on the Kola Peninsula, using ...

Since 1991 and the Chechen Wars, Russian policy has been an unconditional continuation of what was essentially left unfinished in the 19th century: a form of territorial colonialism (unlike Western ma ...

We take you inside the Battle of Grozni, where Russian forces entered the Chechen capital on New Year’s Eve 1994 expecting a swift victory and instead walked into one of the deadliest urban battles ...

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Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB, says it has confirmed the death of Chechen rebel warlord Ruslan Gelayev. It has released footage of a body, saying the corpse has been identified as that of ...

Israeli war on Iran has yielded some clear benefits for Russia: more oil revenues; fewer US weapons for Kyiv; a distraction from the Ukraine peace talks. But it isn’t all good for Moscow.

In 2022, russia created a top-secret special services unit, Center 795, which appeared during a full-scale war and unites elite units of the GRU and FSB of the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday greeted his country’s millions of Muslims on Eid ul-Fitr as more than 200,000 people gathered for Namaz at four different mosques in Moscow. “For centuries, ...

Fire danger is forecast in March in several regions of southern European Russia. This was announced on March 19 by Marina Makarova, a leading employee of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia.