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May 16, 2024 · FILE - Vladimir Putin walks to his presidential inauguration in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2024. Putin is traveling to China on Thursday on his first foreign trip as he starts his fifth term, a visit that underscores an increasingly close partnership between Moscow and Beijing.
1 day ago · Ukraine-Russia war latest: Vladimir Putin repeats warning he could send weapons to adversaries of the West. Speaking at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin also says he ...
2 days ago · Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin [a] ( Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla (j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn] ⓘ; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to ...
4 days ago · Grigori Rasputin (born January 22 [January 10, Old Style], 1869, Pokrovskoye, near Tyumen, Siberia, Russian Empire—died December 30 [December 17, Old Style], 1916, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg, Russia]) was a Siberian peasant and mystic whose ability to improve the condition of Aleksey Nikolayevich, the hemophiliac heir to the Russian throne ...
May 15, 2024 · Events continue to develop rapidly. Putin has sealed his new government, with Belousov given his first marching orders. Before he could hardly step foot into the Duma hall, news broke of a further MOD official being cuffed for corruption: high ranking Yuri Kuznetsov, as well as some affiliated underlings swept up in his alleged corruption scheme. Meanwhile rumors fly that deputy of Shoigu's ...
May 12, 2024 · Reporting from Berlin. Published May 12, 2024 Updated May 24, 2024. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia replaced his minister of defense on Sunday with an economist, shaking up his national ...
May 27, 2024 · 1999 Russian apartment bombings. In September 1999, a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk, killing more than 300, injuring more than 1,000, and spreading a wave of fear across the country. The bombings, together with the Invasion of Dagestan, triggered the Second Chechen War.
