Russia

Chief engineer of the Energia rocket and space corporation says most inflight systems have reached end of service.

Moscow takes a lead in new technology that can evade conventional defences and fly at seven times the speed of sound.

Oil markets faltered earlier in August as the resurgent pandemic threatened demand, but prices have since recovered.

A filmmaker retraces the childhood odyssey of his Polish grandmother who became a refugee in Africa during World War II.

Navalny says he is forced to watch state television in prison and decries ‘culture of snitching’ and constant control.

Afghanistan, now under control of the Taliban, is sitting on what could be the world’s largest lithium reserves.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges international forum to back Kyiv in its bid to overturn 2014 seizure of Black Sea peninsula.

The German chancellor has warned Russia not to use a new pipeline as a potential weapon against Ukraine.

Russian president tells Central Asia leaders ‘extremists’ must be kept at bay following the Taliban’s takeover of power.

Ukraine fiercely opposes Russia’s $12bn pipeline under Baltic Sea which deprives Kyiv of crucial gas transit fees.

US President Joe Biden’s administration sanctioned a Russian insurer named in the New Nord Stream 2 report.

Ambassador Zhirnov says the Taliban has made encouraging pledges and dismisses resistance efforts as doomed.

How one mysterious financier came to sit at the top table of oligarchs and power.

Moscow will seek ‘pragmatic’ engagement with the Taliban after armed group seized control of Afghanistan, analysts say.