Moscow

  Iran’s parliament approved a 20-year strategic partnership on Wednesday between Moscow and Tehran, state media reported. The agreement represents a deepening of bilateral ties including closer defence cooperation. Russian…

Russia’s air defence units destroyed four Ukrainian drones flying towards Moscow, the mayor of the Russian capital said early on Monday. According to preliminary reports, there were no injuries or…

A gas explosion occurred in a residential building in Moscow. Several apartments are reported to be destroyed. Two people died – they were trapped on the balcony of the 9th…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to his Pakistani counterpart on Sunday and offered Russia’s help in resolving tensions between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, the foreign ministry said. “Particular…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a surprise three-day ceasefire from May 8-10, coinciding with Moscow’s World War II Victory Day commemorations, the Kremlin said on Monday. Moscow said it…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, plans a visit to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, two people briefed on the plans said on Monday. Witkoff, who…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone conversation on Saturday, according to an official statement from Moscow. During the conversation, they discussed…

Ukraine claimed credit Tuesday for the assassination of a senior Russian general on a Moscow street with the remote detonation of a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment…

Bashar al-Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and been granted asylum “out of humanitarian considerations”, Russian news agencies are quoting a Kremlin source as saying. Russian state TV…

A senior Russian diplomat has said that the possibility of Moscow resuming nuclear weapons tests remains uncertain, based on what he described as hostile policies of the United States. “This…