World Feb 23 Moscow evacuating embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine urges citizens to leave Russia Russia began evacuating its embassy in Kyiv, and Ukraine urged its citizens to leave Russia.
World Feb 19 Ukraine’s Zelenskyy calls on Putin to meet as tensions soar Pro-Russia separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered a full military mobilization Saturday while Western leaders made increasingly dire warnings that a Russia invasion of its neighbor appeared imminent.
World Feb 16 What is the drug behind Russia’s Olympic doping case? Kamila Valieva was back on the Olympic ice at the Beijing Games for the individual competition. Details of her legal defense in a doping case were revealed only hours earlier.
World Feb 08 In Kyiv, Macron says Putin told him Russia won’t escalate Ukraine crisis French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin told him during their marathon talks on Monday that Moscow would not further escalate the Ukraine crisis.
Nation Feb 02 U.S. to send 2,000 additional troops to Europe to reassure allies, Pentagon says The Pentagon says President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week, and sending part of an infantry Stryker squadron of roughly 1,000 troops based in Germany to Romania.
World Jan 25 Russia adds Navalny and his top allies to list of terrorists Existing laws require freezing the bank accounts of those on the list. The move comes just over a year after Navalny's arrest, which triggered a wave of the biggest mass protests across the country in years.
World Jan 19 Russian-led security troops leave Kazakhstan as president fires defense minister The Russian Defense Ministry says all the troops deployed to Kazakhstan by a Russia-led security alliance to help quell violent unrest have left the former Soviet nation.
World Jan 11 Russia-led security group to pull out troops, says Kazakh leader The president of Kazakhstan has announced that a Russia-led security alliance will start pulling out its troops from the Central Asian country in two days after completing its mission.
World Jan 11 Kremlin not optimistic on Russia-U.S. talks over Ukraine The Kremlin says the security talks with the U.S. over tensions in Ukraine have given little reason for optimism, adding that Russia would wait for the outcome of other meetings this week before deciding whether it's worth to continue negotiations.
World Jan 10 Nearly 8,000 detained in Kazakhstan during unrest The demonstrations began over a near-doubling of fuel prices and quickly spread across the country, reflecting wider discontent with Kazakhstan's authoritarian rule.