A con artist who was able to take power by spreading misinformation his supporters adhered to even when it was clearly false.

The most exacting time for King George was his dilemma about what to do about his cousins, the Romanovs during the Russian revolution of 1917. Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and five children were held in ...

Russia said it opened criminal investigations into the alleged “cannibalistic massacre” of at least seven civilians in the western Russian village of Russkoe Porechnoye, which Ukraine has ...

Explosions were heard across the Ukrainian capital as air raid sirens sounded and air defence crews responded to a Russian ballistic missile attack. Ukraine’s military destroyed 24 drones and ...

POKROVSK REGION, Ukraine — A dire shortage of infantry troops and supply routes coming under Russian drone attacks are conspiring against Ukrainian forces in Pokrovsk, where decisive battles in ...

Far beyond the front lines in Ukraine, Russia is waging a different kind of warfare against NATO. It is a covert, low-intensity conflict with serious consequences. Moscow has long been waging a ...

When a supposed global superpower like Russia begs Iran for drones, turns to North Korea for artillery shells and watches its Black Sea fleet dismantled by a country without a navy, you know ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned he would impose “high levels” of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russia unless Russian President Vladimir Putin strikes a deal to end the war in ...

By Marc Santora and Helene Cooper Marc Santora traveled to the Russian border to meet with Ukrainians fighting North Korean troops in Kursk. Helene Cooper reported from Washington. The North ...

As was easily foreseeable, the inauguration of Donald Trump's US presidency has provoked a wave of enthusiasm in Russia ... where the tsar also intends to celebrate the success of the special ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...