The shopfronts are decked out in white, blue and red, with Chinese and Russian flags hanging side by side from the ceiling. Waist-high Russian dolls greet customers at the entrance. Inside ...

Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. What she has illustrated – as well as the personal journey ...

Russian spies have been accused of orchestrating an arson attack on an Ikea furniture store in Lithuania last year. The fire ...

Lithuanian prosecutors accused Russia's military intelligence on Monday of orchestrating an arson attack on an IKEA store in ...

and some Russian flags flying. The acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinstein, said Russia had evacuated 275 civilians from areas it had regained since Wednesday. Khinstein said "174 ...

Ukraine and Russia each returned 175 prisoners of war in one of the largest exchanges of the war; Trump held a call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fill him in on his chat with Putin the day before ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that he agrees with a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but the terms need to be worked out, and he emphasised that it should pave the ...

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