Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to project an image of economic strength while prosecuting the war in Ukraine, as if he could easily outlast the West’s efforts to counter his aggression. If President-elect Donald Trump and other Western leaders want to negotiate a prudent peace deal, they shouldn’t buy it.

Vladimir Putins end-of-year Q&A session with reporters and the public is billed as a chance for Russian citizens to ask the president about the issues that matter to them most. But while much of the televised marathon focuses on domestic affairs, Putin always uses it to send signals to the West and the rest of the world, too. This year, Putins messaging was colored by expectations that U.S. ...

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The Russian leader said that, if he could do it over, he'd have launched his invasion even earlier than February 2022.

Moscow said it would be open for representatives from the "anti-Hitler coalition" to join its May 9 events in Moscow.

Sweden and Finlands recent accession to NATO offers the U.S. and its allies a new vector to complicate the work of Russian military planners.

After Putin proposed a "high-tech duel" with the West, Russia hammered Kyiv with missiles, igniting fires across the city.

Nikolai Yuryev, head of the military counterintelligence department of Russia's Federal Security Service has resigned.

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President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly suggested on the campaign trail that if elected, he would resolve the war between Russia and Ukraine. Critics,

Russian President Vladimir Putin talked for more than three hours during an annual news conference in Moscow on Thursday, discussing key topics including the war in Ukraine, his interest in dialogue with President-elect Trump and an openness to asking about detained journalist Austin Tice in Syria. Putin's end-of-the-year news conference has always attracted a large...