Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he takes full responsibility for his administration's "war on drugs", in a ...

A Finnish court has convicted a Russian former far-right militia member of committing war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donbas region in 2014. The Helsinki court sentenced Voislav ...

The EU has removed a number of Russians from its sanctions list after pressure from Hungary and Slovakia, securing a deal to ...

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, who has died aged 93, believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Alisa Kovalenko enlisted to defend her country, leaving her husband and 5-year-old son behind, ...

In 1992, Russia and Iran signed an agreement to continue the construction of the station using Russian VVER-1000 technology. In September 2011, the first power unit was connected to the network, its ...

The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations to mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, highlighting the Trump administration's change of stance on the war.

The world has changed since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. For Russia, the change is arguably most obvious in its trade patterns and its increasing dependence on China. https://p.dw ...

Russia demanded that NATO rescind its 2008 promise to eventually grant Ukraine membership and stressed this as insufficient without explicit revocation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ...

US negotiators who met Russian diplomats in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said that the two countries agreed on “four principles” to advance ceasefire discussions between Russia and Ukraine, beginning with ...