Putin's tough stance on a Ukraine peace plan shows his resolve on Russia's demandsAmid ongoing missile strikes, Putin demands Ukraine cede territory for peace, signaling a willingness to fight until his maximalist terms a...
01 Jun, 2025, 10.10 AM 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
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
Russia hits Ukraine's grain for fourth day, practises seizing shipsRussia continues to pound Ukraine's food export facilities for the fourth day and has even launched missile attacks on grain terminals and ...
21 Jul, 2023, 08.59 PM IST
The weaknesses weighing on Vladimir Putin after Wagner mutinyPrigozhin was the most strident voice for those inside Russia criticising failures in the invasion and the strategies used by Defence Minis...
07 Jul, 2023, 03.38 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
Who is Russia's new war commander Gerasimov and why was he appointed?Many of the nationalist war bloggers who have licence from the Kremlin to criticise the conduct of the war have blamed Gerasimov for the fa...
12 Jan, 2023, 08.21 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
Russia opens probe of Alexey Navalny illness after Western pressureThe Interior Ministry called the probe a “pre-investigation check” and repeated the Kremlin’s earlier assertion that no poison has been fou...
27 Aug, 2020, 07.15 PM IST