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,

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.

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.

Moscow is open to dialogue with the administration of Donald Trump on the Ukrainian conflict. This was announced today, January 20, by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council.

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.

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

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 (Reuters) -Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night,

On Jan. 24, 2011, a suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport international arrival gate killed 37 people and injured more than 170 others.

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington on Wednesday night,

Rescue teams in this northeastern region have uncovered the bodies of nine civilians from the rubble of a house hit by a Russian drone overnight on January 30. Thirteen others were wounded. The attack is one of the deadliest since mid-November,

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — President Donald Trump’s abrupt freeze of U.S. foreign aid is sending shockwaves through Eastern Europe, leaving pro-democracy groups, independent media, civil society initiatives and local governments scrambling to make ends meet in a region often defined by rivalries between East and West.