Billionaire oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler on Tuesday lost his appeal against British sanctions imposed on him over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine at the UK's Supreme Court, a ruling lawyers said makes it ...

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A problem with lengthy sanctions regimes is that as trade diminishes, they tend to become less effective. As economist Albert Hirschman argued in his seminal work on trade and power, trade is both a ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia’s ongoing war in ...

President Donald Trump has met in Scotland with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. At one of Trump's golf courses Monday, ...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s document releases about the Obama administration’s review of the 2016 ...

U.S. intelligence had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

Mr. Putin appears to be caught in the same dilemma, between seizing as much as possible and legitimizing at least part of ...

At a glance, it might seem like government support would strengthen religious institutions. In reality, it can backfire, ...

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says there is no reason to change Finland’s position on recognising Palestine, ...