President Volodymyr Zelensky said he supported the talks. But President Trump suggested Mr. Zelensky may have to make concessions Ukraine has dismissed in the past as unacceptable.

Vladimir Putin is considering naming a former bodyguard who once saved his life as his official successor, a Pulitzer-winning ...

In today’s increasingly repressive environment, gay club owners have tried various strategies to survive. Some have even ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's ...

As the president of Russia, the largest nation among the 15 republics constituting the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin denounced the conservatives’ move as a coup, and said that Gorbachev was placed ...

When Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin, his commitment to revitalizing relations with Tehran was unmistakable. In 2001, Moscow and Tehran signed their first comprehensive cooperation treaty.

‘We have reached a point where it is arguable that the best service our aid program could now serve would be to permit Boris Yeltsin publicly to tell America to take its money and shove it,’ wrote ...

In this book, Satter tells the story of the apartment bombings and how Boris Yeltsin presided over the criminalization of Russia, why Vladimir Putin was chosen as his successor, and how Putin has ...

Although the scientists had notified dozens of countries, including Russia, in advance of their ... After conferring with his top advisers, Yeltsin concluded that the rocket was heading away ...

Xi told Putin about that phone call during the two leaders’ more than hour-and-a-half conversation Tuesday, according to Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov, who added that the timing of the Xi-Putin call ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...