Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned Armenia, which hopes to eventually join the European Union, that it won’t be able to be part of both the EU and a Moscow-led economic alliance.

Ukrainian officials have in the past said that Moscow makes false claims of advances to persuade U.S. negotiators that a Russian victory in Ukraine is inevitable.

The Iran war has caused energy prices to surge, directly benefiting — and filling the coffers — of major oil and gas producers like Russia.

It’s been a good month for Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the U.S.-Israeli war against its ally Iran. Tehran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the conflict has put a choke hold on the movement of one-fifth of the world’s oil,

Russia is reporting that it has shot down hundreds of Ukrainian drones in a massive overnight attack across its regions and Crimea.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, the country’s Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov said on Thursday.

Mobile internet access has been shut off in Moscow in recent days after similar outages in dozens of regions.

MOSCOW, April 3 (Reuters) - Seven people were injured when a passenger train carrying 412 people derailed in Russia's Ulyanovsk region some 900 kilometres (559 miles) from Moscow, Russian officials said on Friday.