Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among Russia’s biggest boosters.

Russia maintains a formidable collection of air defense systems, but it is being challenged by new threats and new competitors.

The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the bottles he was given away from public view.

Multiple Russian sources say North Korea will take part in the Victory Day parade in Moscow in May. The event marks the former Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany.

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell Newsweek.

Advertising Across the former Soviet Union, Russia’s grip keeps showing signs of strain. Azerbaijan’s archenemy, Armenia, no longer sees Russia as the guarantor of its security and is looking ...

The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.

The Kremlin says it’s watching with “great interest” President-elect Trump’s ambitions for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.  Trump declined to rule out using military force in his pursuit of

Yet, everything suggests that Russia is in a tight economic situation, which is likely to lead to minimal growth in 2025. In their classical article in Novy Mir in 1987, the two Soviet economists Vasily Selyunin and Grigory Khanin showed that the Soviet Union exaggerated its economic growth by about 3 percentage points each year by doctoring the

If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis program in exchange. The incoming U.S. president could point out that Russia has prospered as a result of the International Space Station partnership. Without that partnership, Russia would not be any kind of space power,