The latest sanctions from President Joe Biden 's administration on Russia's oil sector have severely disrupted Moscow's Arctic oil business and stalled its oil tanker fleet, according to a Tuesday report.
Trump says meeting with Putin being planned as fight over Arctic set to begin - Trump calls Ukraine war ‘bloody mess’ as he refuses to rule out military action to gain control over Greenland
The incoming U.S. administration admits that its stunning polar gambit is about warding off Russian ambitions.
Trump has the levers to force Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war promptly if he dispenses with the Biden Administration’s tepid, inconsistent economic pressure.
According to the Russian general Andrey Gurulev, frenemies Putin and Trump should just share the world’s largest island instead of conflicting over it. But Gurulev also thinks the Kremlin should ...
The trio are applauded in court as they are sentenced for their role in assisting Alexei Navalny - after a prosecution which rights groups say crosses a new threshold in the repression of dissent under Putin.
Donald Trump has refused to rule out using military force to seize the world's largest island, and the Kremlin's concern is no surprise, given the Arctic's growing economic and geopolitical significance to Moscow.
Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko said Russia can't help but be "concerned" over President-elect Donald Trump's "unclear approaches".
Vladimir Putin is determined to further enlarge Russia, and he sees Donald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland or take it by other means as a way to whitewash Putin’s attempted conquest of Ukraine, as well as his potential future endeavors.
Three lawyers for deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were on Friday sentenced to prison for “being part of an extremist group,” a Russian court ruled. Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, who have been in pre-trial detention since October 2023, are accused of passing Navalny’s prison messages to the outside world.
Russia sentenced three of Navalny’s lawyers to prison for sharing his messages, sparking international outrage.
LONDON (Reuters) -Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony.