Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales ...

Ukraine has requested the extradition of the State Hermitage Museum’s Alexander Butyagin, who seized artefacts including ancient Greek coins ...

Directors David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin on smuggling footage out of Russia, protecting the people left behind and the ...

Vladimir Putin’s secret lover received tens of millions of pounds in payments from a construction company owned by the Russian leader’s former classmates.

Four years after Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched his blitzkrieg "special operation" to seize and annex every square kilometer of Ukraine, the former KGB colonel finds his corrupt, ineffectual ...

Iran has a president who admits he is “a doctor, not a politician” and should not be expected to cure the country’s problems.

The war in Ukraine and strains within the transatlantic alliance have created one of the most uncertain strategic environments since the end of the Cold War, Dr. Stefan Fritsch said Saturday during ...

Ukraine's president has said Vladimir Putin 'doesn't have too much time left' amid questions over the Kremlin leader's whereabouts as he has not been seen in over a week. Speaking to Politico during ...

MOSCOW, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Russia's presidential commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, said on Thursday that six more children were being reunited with their families in Russia and ...

In June, the White House budget office received a strange request from a bureaucrat in the General Services Administration, a sleepy agency overseeing banal functions like IT contracting and real ...

There was a time when Munich really mattered. For a generation after the Cold War, the annual Munich Security Conference was a mecca for leaders of a Europe whole and free, a confab for the Western ...

Russia will continue to observe the limits set under the recently-expired New START nuclear arms reduction treaty if the United States does the same, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said ...