The Successor. By Mikhail Fishman. Translated by Michele Berdy. Pushkin Press; 800 pages; £35. To be published in America in May; $40 FORMALLY, THE successor to Russia’s first post-Soviet president, ...

YOU WOULD have thought that, after four bloody years, a war which neither side can win would have burnt itself out. But not the war in Ukraine. And the blame lies with one man. Vladimir Putin is ...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed their ties during a video call on Wednesday held in the run-up to the fourth anniversary of Moscow's war in Ukraine. In a ...

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As a U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in the Middle East, President Trump goes back to negotiating with Iran. But what does the U.S. want in a deal, now that Iran's nuclear sites are rubble, and will ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Syrian Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the Kremlin in Moscow. Yuri ...

This is the second time that President Vladimir V. Putin has hosted President Ahmed al-Sharaa since the fall of the Russia-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

After weeks of silence, Russian state media has suddenly pivoted toward a "let's make a deal" narrative, signaling a startling shift in tone as high-stakes Ukraine negotiations revive in Moscow and ...

As peace talks over Ukraine press forward, the familiar structures of multilateralism are being bypassed in favor of direct, high-stakes bargaining between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, ...

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