BAKURussian air defences downed an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people, four sources with knowledge of the preliminary findings of Azerbaijans investigation into the disaster told Reuters on Thursday. Flight J2-8243 crashed down on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an […]

The plane went down about 3 kilometers from Aktau. Cellphone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground.

Vladimir Putins recent end-of-the-year press conference was mostly a self-congratulatory snooze, but there were several moments that revealed the depths of depravity and unreality to which the Russian dictator has sunk.

Finlands police and border patrol have boarded the Eagle S oil tanker, which is part of Russias shadow fleet while investigating the cause of an interruption of subsea power and data cables linking Finland with Estonia, Finnish police said on Thursday. The tanker, Eagle S, was traveling in the Baltic Sea under the flag of the Cook Islands and was fully loaded with unleaded gasoline, the Finn...

For those who seemingly have everything, what might the leaders of the United States, Russia and China want for Christmas?

The arrest announcement follows the death of Russia's Lt. Gen Igor Kirillov, who was killed on Dec. 17 by a bomb hidden on an electric scooter parked outside his apartment building.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said there have been more than 3,000 North Korean casualties in Russia's Kursk region.

The vast majority of the world's data runs through undersea cables, which can be exposed to attacks under what is known as hybrid warfare.

Podcast host Lex Fridman said he wanted to interview Volodymyr Zelensky in Russian as it is a language both men are fluent in.

Russian companies are using bitcoin to evade Western sanctions, thanks to a new law, the country’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov confirmed in a television interview, Axios reports. Russia’s economy has […]

The Krasnodar region in southwest Russia has declared a regional emergency as oil continued to wash ashore this week following the collision of oil tankers in the Black Sea last week. Last week, the Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 tankers sustained serious damage as a result of a storm in the Black Sea, running aground in the Kerch Strait. The Volgoneft 212 spilt in half. According toreportsof...

The Nizhny Novgorod Oblast will pay one million rubles (about $10,000) per child.

The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria says it has been hit by a series of explosions in an act of sabotage

"Ukraine was brutally attacked on Christmas Day," said Keith Kellogg, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Ukraine and Russia envoy.

Honda and Nissan are in talks over a merger as the auto industry sees two seismic changes. And, Russia violently attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Christmas Day.

President-elect Donald Trump is signaling to NATO member-states that they must spend 5 percent of their GDP annually on defense if they want U.S. support, in order to prepare for a potential war with Russia in the next decade.

Moscow will work with President-elect Donald Trumps administration to improve relations on one condition: Washington must make the first move, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared Thursday.The post Russia Tells Trump: You Must Move First to Improve T...