Russia on Friday condemned an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to build a new missile defence shield, accusing the United States of trying to upset the global nuclear balance and pave the wave for military confrontation in space.

This follows Trump's earlier statement on Jan. 30 that the United States had contacted Russia about repatriating the remains of the victims of the Washington plane crash. Asked by journalists if he had personally spoken to Putin,

However, an important memoir published in 2024 by John Sullivan, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2020 until 2022, could provide some answers. Ominously titled "Midnight in Moscow" the book shows just how belligerent towards Russia the Biden administration was at a fraught moment — and how little key American diplomats seemed to think of real diplomacy.

Current and former European and U.S. officials have raised concerns about some of Trump’s picks for top intelligence posts.

The Russian Foreign Ministry's special ambassador said Moscow may decide to favor the "quantitative and qualitative increase" of nuclear arms.

As the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looms, President Donald Trump and his administration are working toward bringing the war to a swift end. Five experts lay out recommendations

It is now a weapon being used against us.” Trump’s skepticism about U.S. support for Ukraine and Taiwan, his eagerness to impose tariffs, and his threats to retake the Panama Canal, absorb Canada, and acquire Greenland make it clear that he envisions a return to nineteenth-century power politics and spheres of interest,

A passenger flight operated by the Russian airline Pobeda, en route from Dubai to Moscow, safely landed in Astrakhan, a city in southern Russia, after issuing a distress signal over the Caspian Sea, Interfax news agency reported citing Russian emergency services.

Moscow on Friday confirmed that three Russians were among the 67 victims of the deadly plane crash that took place in the United States on Wednesday night. A US passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into the Potomac River after a mid-air collision with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter,

NICOLE GRAJEWSKI is a Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance From Syria to Ukraine.

For the past ten years, the Cairo office of Russian state media outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik has centralised their international news coverage in  Arabic. These outlets capitalise on criticism of Western media coverage to amplify the Kremlin’s narrative in the region.