Moscow’s patronage enriches a Kremlin-friendly warlord from Chechnya by letting him plunder a big metals plant.

European stock futures were muted at the start of the week. The dollar held steady. Gold and oil edged higher amid renewed demand for safe-haven assets.

PLEASE let me introduce you to three Scottish engineers who will write this column for the next few months. With more than a century of ...

When Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) died on 21 January 1924, Soviet authorities at the behest of Stalin began embalming his body and building a mausoleum. The red and black polished stone temple has ...

Visitors can discover a piece of the nose of a statue bearing the effigy of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, blown off by a drone strike during the fighting, a poster of the American film Borderlands ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia would not let Ukraine get nuclear weapons, after Ukraine's leader said that since Kyiv had given up its Soviet-era nuclear arms, it must join ...

You were never meant to hear the voice of Vladimir Kara-Murza ever again. The Russian opposition leader had warned for years that Vladimir Putin would threaten the peace of the world, and at the U ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday his possible attendance at next month's summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Brazil would disrupt the important work there, adding that ...