VLADIMIR PUTIN

Many of the nation’s citizens spend more than half their income on food as they battle the effects of inflation and declining wages. Nearly 20 million live in poverty.

NATO could pursue a greater presence in Eastern Europe, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned Tuesday.

It will spend 725 million euros on defense in 2017, about 1.8 percent of its economy and almost as much as it spent from 2011 to 2013.

The inaugural rocket from the new spaceport came a day after a planned launch Wednesday was aborted due to a technical glitch.

The Republican front-runner will attempt to shore up his foreign policy credentials with a speech on economic and security policy Wednesday.

Sergei Shoigu also blamed the U.S. and NATO’s deployment of military forces near Russian borders in response to Moscow’s retaliatory measures.

The first launch will be a Soyuz rocket carrying three satellites into orbit.

Central and Eastern European states aren't buying Russia's talk of improving relations as more defense brigades are created.

What has been dubbed Russian President Vladimir Putin's “personal army,” meant to fight crime and terror, could be authorized to shoot into crowds.

According to Israel’s top-selling newspaper, Russian military forces in Syria fired at Israeli Air Force planes at least twice in recent weeks.

Russian government officials have admitted they expect no economic growth in 2016.

The City of London, the U.K.’s financial hub, warns that bankers could leave London and currency trading would be hit if Britain leaves the EU.

NATO’s general-secretary noted “persistent disagreements­” at the first meeting of the NATO-Russia Council since the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2014.

A Dutch court on Wednesday struck down a July 2014 ruling that ordered Russia to pay $50 billion in damages to former shareholders of the now-defunct Yukos oil company.

Breakthroughs are not expected in the first Russia-NATO talks since the start of the Ukraine crisis following provocative Russian military maneuvers in the Baltic Sea.

High inflation and falling real wages mean Russians are spending over 50 percent of their incomes on food for the first time in almost a decade.

The Israeli prime minister said he had spoken by telephone with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Saturday and told him Israel’s security must not be compromised.

Tehran fears a loss of regional influence if Russia’s recent military pullback leads to the removal of Syria’s Bashar Assad, observers say.

Ahead of next week's meeting between Western and Russian military leaders, the Kremlin is showing little appetite for improved relations.

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Seven highlights from the Russian president’s annual, and highly stage-managed, question-and-answer session.