President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration has already had “very serious” discussions with Russia about its war ...

Lavrov’s statement likely foreshadows the aggressive posture that Russian President Vladimir Putin will assume with Trump regarding Ukraine. Coming to an agreement with Putin, even for such a ...

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 ...

Putin’s goal of dominating Ukraine will not change. He sees it as fundamental to russia’s place in the world and to his own legacy as a modern-day tsar. To anticipate putin’s next moves, Washington ...

In 2000, the election of Putin, already acting in place of Yeltsin ... of a future of political change and renewal, whatever the tsar's personal fate. Writer Denis Dragunsky says that 2025 ...

Even as President-elect Trump, who has frequently touted his close relationship with Putin, returns to the White House, concerns in NATO countries over potential Russian attacks are likely to ...

President Donald Trump pledged his “love” of the Russian people and boasted about a “very good relationship’ with President Vladimir Putin before threatening “high levels” of taxes ...

It started out rather differently than we now sometimes imagine it. When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a ...

The White House scrambled to get a message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last year after U.S. intelligence agencies said a Russian military unit was preparing to send explosive packages ...

Asked if he has already spoken directly with Putin, Trump was coy: “I don’t want to say that.” Trump has said repeatedly he wouldn’t have allowed the conflict to start if he had been in ...