Analysts worry that the Russian economy's overall shakiness might lead Russia to take aggressive action in a desperate ...

The four southernmost islands of the chain also are claimed by Japan, which calls them the Northern Territories.

Japanese officials had ‘crossed the line of decency’ in criticising Putin’s recent trip, said Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

SEOUL, Aug 16 (Reuters) - North Korean ⁠leader ⁠Kim Jong Un reaffirmed ⁠the deepening of ties with Russia in a message to ...

Cooperation between Russia and North Korea would continue "in all the sectors," Putin said in his message, while Kim praised ...

President Vladimir Putin ⁠said ⁠on Wednesday that Russia will respond in ⁠kind if European countries start to seize Russian ...

MOSCOW, Aug 17 (Reuters) - A little-known Russian company has asked President Vladimir Putin to place the Russian assets of ...

Japanese PM says Putin’s visit to the Pacific island chain, seized by the Soviet Union in 1945, is ‘unacceptable’.

A top Russian banker warned that the country will lose the war of the attrition with the West, and that the current socioeconomic state is a recipe for an existential social crisis. President Vladimir ...

Japan issued a stern rebuke to Moscow after the Russian president visited a chain of islands at the center of a territorial ...

YANGON — Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing departed Monday for Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, Naypyidaw said, ...