She won Olympic gold in 2004 and was one of Russia’s most celebrated athletes.

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Vladimir Putin came to power as a professed reformer on the eve of 2000, and has since become one of the 21st century's most prolific warlords. DW looks at how EU, US and NATO relations with Putin ...

HAS VLADIMIR PUTIN QUIETLY ACQUIRED a new imperial possession in the heart of Europe, embedded within the EU and NATO? The suggestion may sound hyperbolic, but reports from Bratislava are becoming ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their annual New Year’s video call on Tuesday. The two ...

As we show in our new, original economic analysis, Trump has the levers to force Vladimir Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war promptly if he dispenses with the Biden Administration’s tepid ...

Bright, unusual lights overlooking the Bay Area were reported just after 6 a.m. on Friday. Turns out, it wasn't aliens. It ...

Talking to reporters in the White House, he said of Russian President Vladimir Putin: “He should make a deal. I think he’s destroying Russia by not making a deal.” Trump was unprecedentedly ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin’s martial arts skills are the stuff of legend. Thanks to a steady stream of fawning coverage from Russian state media – often repeated uncritically in American news outlets ...