Putin has upper hand in Trump talks on elusive Ukraine peace: AnalystsVladimir Putin's discussion with Donald Trump covered various topics including bilateral ties and the Ukraine war, but no ceasefire agreeme...
19 Mar, 2025, 10.24 PM IST
Vladimir Putin scores a big victory, and not on the battlefieldIn a pivotal phone call, President Trump conveyed to Putin that the U.S. and Russia should directly negotiate Ukraine’s fate, signaling a p...
13 Feb, 2025, 10.16 PM IST
'Patience paid off': Putin out of shadow after Donald Trump callUS President Trump’s phone call to Russian President Putin, their first in almost three years, has raised concerns worldwide. The lengthy d...
13 Feb, 2025, 09.57 PM IST
Why Russia has struggled to halt Ukraine's incursion in the Kursk regionRussia struggles to expel Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region as it focuses military efforts on eastern Ukraine. Despite significant inc...
29 Aug, 2024, 10.13 AM IST
Arrest of Russian defence minister's deputy may be strike by rival 'clan'Sergei Shoigu, Russia's defence minister, has tried to send a "business as usual" message since his deputy was arrested on a bribery charge...
26 Apr, 2024, 05.34 PM IST
'Give birth to more soldiers': Hardline Russia turns on abortionsRussia's radical conservative turn since it invaded Ukraine is changing life inside the country, with even the long-held right for women to...
15 Dec, 2023, 05.41 PM IST
For Putin, winning reelection could be easier than resolving the many challenges facing RussiaThe stalemated war in Ukraine, unyielding Western pressure that compounds Russia's economic problems, and intensifying infighting among the...
11 Dec, 2023, 04.22 PM IST
Vladimir Putin will seek another presidential term in Russia, extending his rule of over two decadesAbout 80% of the populace approves of his performance, according to the independent pollster Levada Center. That support might come from th...
09 Dec, 2023, 01.02 PM IST
Plane crash believed to have killed Russian mercenary chief seen as Kremlin's revengeYevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of a Russian private military company, and several top officers were presumed dead in a plane crash that is b...
24 Aug, 2023, 03.53 PM IST
The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizensRights advocates say that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has harnessed digital technology to track, censor and control the populatio...
23 May, 2023, 12.38 PM IST
'Give us ammunition': Wagner chief challenges Russian armyYevgeny Prigozhin's unprecedented call on Russians to take his side in a high-profile conflict with the defence ministry came ahead of the ...
22 Feb, 2023, 09.53 PM IST
Vladimir Putin's Ukraine gamble seen as biggest threat to his ruleThat lesson, cited in the most recent biography of the Russian president, seems to be guiding him as his invasion of Ukraine suffers setbac...
20 Feb, 2023, 11.10 PM IST
Russian defence chief keeps job despite Ukraine routs thanks to PutinThe Russian leader has various reasons for keeping Sergei Shoigu, 67, in post, according to Western officials, veteran Kremlin watchers and...
20 Feb, 2023, 10.55 AM IST
Rifts in Russian military command seen amid Ukraine fightingFootage posted in the fall showed a Wagner contractor being beaten to death with a sledgehammer after allegedly defecting to the Ukrainian ...
13 Jan, 2023, 01.27 PM IST
Vladimir Putin is safe in power for now, but risks lie ahead, sources sayMost of them said the Russian president was in one of the tightest spots in his more than two decades in power over Ukraine, where his inva...
18 Oct, 2022, 10.35 PM IST
Russians now see a new side to Putin: Dragging them into warRussians awoke in shock after they learned that Putin, in an address to the nation that aired before 6 a.m., had ordered a full-scale assau...
25 Feb, 2022, 08.06 PM IST
Vladimir Putin 4.0 to launch amid crackdown on oppositionPutin, who has ruled Russia for 18 years, will begin his next stint as leader two days after nearly 1,600 protesters were detained during n...
07 May, 2018, 10.50 AM IST