ST. PETERSBURG, December 24. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a traditional informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in St. Petersburg. All CIS leaders will ...

"Examining the language ... departure of new Russian ambassador to Washington In late November, Russian media outlets reported that Director of the Foreign Ministry’s North America Department ...

Russian forces captured two villages in Ukraine, one in Kharkiv region in the northeast and one in eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday.

As Russian troops near the city of Pokrovsk, where a beloved Ukrainian composer wrote his most famous song — now known worldwide as "Carol of the Bells" — Ukrainians seek to safeguard his legacy.