Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist whose arrest in Moscow in 1986 on fabricated espionage charges threatened to derail Cold War détente amid crisis talks that led to a prisoner swap for ...

The Pantheon near the Kremlin wall in Moscow, where Soviet leaders and World War II commanders are buried. A Ukraine invasion would be Europe’s largest land war since then.

Russia has officially ended a 30-year-old military cooperation agreement with Germany, marking a major turning point in post-Cold War European relations. This agreement, signed in 1996, was a ...

The war in Ukraine is about to enter its second year, and after losing ground to Ukrainian forces in the second half of 2022, Russia may be seeking more help from China. Beijing's top diplomat met ...

A simmering political feud in Russia has exploded into a crisis. The head of a Russian mercenary army fighting in Ukraine alongside Moscow’s official military forces has declared war against the ...

The U.S. and Russia worked out a complex prisoner exchange involving more than 20 people, including three Americans and 10 Russians. In the past, many such deals involved spies for spies.