Bank interest rates on deposits and loans rose much higher than the central bank's key rate, causing a slowdown in lending ...

Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the ...

Volunteers are grappling with environmental havoc across more than 35 miles of coastline, after at least 3,700 tons of heavy ...

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid “with no respite even at Christmas”. Russia launched ...

President Joe Biden is weighing major new sanctions against Russia’s energy sector in his final weeks in office.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU ...

Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a stronger military presence in the continent following the ...

Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned an “inhumane” attack by Russia on Christmas Day, as he accused Vladimir Putin ’s forces of launching a vast attack on Ukraine ’s energy infrastructure. At such a ...

Volunteers helping to clean up a major oil spill along Russia's Black Sea coast appealed in a video released on Monday for ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday suggested a missile 'duel' with the United States that would show how Russia's ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia needed a long-lasting peace with Ukraine, not a temporary truce. He ...

Vladimir Putin said he is ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks on ending his war and has no conditions for ...