He learned fundamental spy skills such as recruiting sources, counterintelligence, and surveillance techniques. But the real experience went far beyond his job posting. Putin's Dresden Posting In ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 21 -- President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday endorsed the sale of a majority stake in Siberian oil fields held by Yukos, the besieged Russian oil conglomerate, and said the purchase had been ...

Russian propaganda has justified the war against Ukraine for years by citing the "threat of NATO enlargement." However, archival statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself shatter this ...

Vladimir Putin won at the presidential elections, gaining over 63% or 45.5 million votes that exceeds the election result of the United Russia at the State Duma elections, Kommersant daily writes.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi has recalled that Russia’s leadership once publicly supported NATO’s eastward enlargement – despite now using it as a justification for ...

A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia. By Peter ...