VLADIMIR PUTIN

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the move will open up new prospects for trade and investment between the two countries.

The comments by U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove were his strongest public intervention yet in the debate going on in Washington.

The diplomatic move, also involving France and Germany, is the result of increased Western concern over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The U.S. has hinted at sending weapons to Ukraine, but the German government is not on board.

Lavrov and Kerry have been point men for their respective countries' interests in Ukraine over the past year.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are scheduled to meet Putin in Moscow on Friday.

The Russian and Greek leaders talked Thursday about gas projects, which could help alleviate economic woes in both countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Western officials say instigated the Ukraine crisis, will meet with Merkel and Hollande on Friday.

Russia's ruler may have "an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions," the report found.

Sending weapons to Ukraine could escalate fighting, but may be necessary to confront Russia's wider aggression.

The call comes one day after the latest round of truce talks buckled in Minsk Saturday.

Even the Belarusian president dubbed "the last dictator in Europe" is distancing himself from Moscow these days.

The rearmament of strategic nuclear missile forces is an absolute priority, according to the Russian government.

Nearly 80 percent of Russians polled said they would give up Western foodstuffs to help shore up the country's struggling economy.

If Kim Jong Un makes the trip to Russia, it will be his first foreign visit since taking power in 2011.

Alexander Litvinenko, who knew Russian President Vladimir Putin personally, was found dead after exposing alleged corruption in Russian politics.

The deputy prime minister says Russia's new nukes cannot be stopped, but it may just be political bluster.

“I’m free now, but free to do what? To go where? I didn’t have two cents in my pocket. Just my Auschwitz uniform.”

From his deathbed, Kremlin-critic Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder.

Fighting has escalated in eastern Ukraine in recent days, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Kiev.

At least 30 people were killed and 83 others wounded after an attack on civilian neighborhoods Saturday in Ukraine's strategic port of Mariupol.