Apr. 29, 2024 06:42 AM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — A group of militants attacked a police checkpoint in Russia's North Caucasus region, killing two officers, officials said Monday.
Four other officers were wounded and all five attackers were killed in the shootout in the Karachay-Cherkessia region late Sunday,...
Mar. 24, 2024 17:40 PM EDT
A week ago, President Vladimir Putin swaggered triumphantly onstage at a post-election event surrounded by young people in T-shirts reading “Putin — Russia — Victory,” and he confidently shrugged off Western criticism of the vote as neither free nor fair.
This weekend, a very...
Mar. 01, 2024 10:14 AM EST
Alexei Navalny, Russia's top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, was buried Friday in a Moscow suburb in a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence.
Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, died Feb....