Mr Peskov cited the international situation, escalating tensions near Russia’s borders and the growing proximity of Nato ...

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of 133,000 new servicemen in Russia's autumn draft that ...

The Russian government wants to earmark 32.5 percent of its spending next year for defense, a record amount and up from a ...

Kyiv’s top tennis player Elina Svitolina tells Alexander Butler the West must act to get Ukraine’s stolen children back from ...

Vladimir Putin goes to “surreal” lengths to shroud his private life in mystery, but recent security failures have allowed ...

India's oil secretary, Pankaj Jain, has said that New Delhi is "not touching" any commodity from the Arctic LNG 2 project due ...

President Vladimir Putin promoted influential former bodyguard Alexei Dyumin to Russia's modern-day politburo on Monday, ...

Russia is open to talks over the reconciliation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was one of eight Russian dissidents freed in the largest international prisoner swap since ...

Murza, who thought he'd die in prison after he received a 25-year sentence, said an FSB agent had parting advice when he was ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said on Sunday that Moscow's revised nuclear weapons doctrine is needed because NATO ...

The Kremlin said on Sunday that amendments to Russia's nuclear doctrine had been prepared and were about to be formalised, ...