As negotiators try to hammer out a partial ceasefire, NPR's Juana Summers talks to Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy about Russia's history of broken promises to Ukraine. Two days of negotiations in ...

As U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push for a swift end to the war in Ukraine, fears are mounting that Kyiv could be forced to accept a peace deal on unfavorable terms, and that will leave it ...

For the first time in the war launched by Moscow, Ukrainian drones flew around 1,200 kilometers [745 miles] to reach their target in Russia's republic of Tatarstan, local media reported on Tuesday. A ...

Beginning in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia steadily escalated into one of the ...

In this video I talk about and show a few interesting maps of the Russian Federation. Russia has been on the news a lot lately, for bad reasons, and it's more important than ever to learn about it. I ...

Washington — In the largest international prisoner exchange since the Cold War, 24 prisoners were traded on a tarmac in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday in a deal involving half a dozen countries. The ...

To mark 25 years of Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Russia expert Keir Giles of Chatham House about three key moments in which Putin has exerted power. Twenty-five ...

A rare United States reconnaissance aircraft specializing in signals intelligence conducted its second spy flight since reaching Europe last week on Monday as it flew near Russia's Western borders.

On August 6, Ukrainian forces crossed from the Sumy region into Russia and swiftly seized a significant part of the Sudzhansky district in the Kursk Oblast. Over the ensuing weeks, Ukraine made a ...

Vladimir Medinsky is Russia's former culture minister and Kremlin aide - Copyright AFP Tauseef MUSTAFA Vladimir Medinsky is Russia's former culture minister and ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s eastern coast on late Wednesday morning, local time. The quake triggered tsunami waves across the Pacific that hit Russia, Japan, Canada and parts of ...