Add to the tension that Putin’s Russia has been engaged in a covert ... amid the grim legacy of the Nazi siege, the young Vladimir Putin learnt survival arts more appropriate to the chaotic ...

It comes at a delicate time, with Vladimir Putin and his MPs threatening parties offering to support Kyiv's defence of its territory. Aleksey Zhuravlyov, deputy head of Russia's parliamentary ...

A shamed Vladimir Putin today apologised for downing a passenger plane and killing 38 people. The Kremlin dictator called Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev to say sorry for Russian air defences ...

When Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, resigned on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he publicly implored Vladimir Putin, his handpicked but little-known successor ...