After a brief recession in 2022, the Russian economy boomed in the following two years. Now, though, Russia’s economy is slowing, almost to a standstill. In July GDP grew by just 0.4% on a year earlier;

Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts,

The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Russia, prompting close monitoring in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. But no tsunami waves were detected along the remote island chain and the tsunami advisory was canceled.

A new memorandum will see Ukrainian forces training Polish troops in counter-drone tactics. It's a moment of recognition of Kyiv's growing expertise.

After multiple Russian drones violated NATO airspace, Europe faces questions over the alliance’s long-term ability to deal with this growing threat.

OMV, an Austrian oil, gas and chemicals group, has dismissed an executive over suspicions of spying for Russia. Source: Austrian news agency APA, as reported by European Pravda Details: On 19, Austrian news magazine Profil published an investigation into an OMV executive who drew the attention of an Austrian counterintelligence agency because he met with a Russian diplomat.

By then, Russia’s president was running the world’s largest landmass from a series of elaborately constructed, identical conference rooms. As far as the CIA could tell, there were at least three of them across Russia,