The Kremlin has withstood pressure for an immediate cease-fire as a precondition for peace talks, but the Russian president’s ...

New figures show that Russia's foreign trade surplus decreased by 15.9% in the first four months of 2025 compared to the same ...

THE United Nations is facing a worsening cash crisis that threatens its ability to carry out vital work, member states warned this week, as the General ...

Donald Trump says Moscow and Kyiv will start ceasefire negotiations "immediately", after two-hour call with Putin.

“This shifts the negotiating dynamic,” Stephen Olson, a former U.S. trade negotiator, told Bloomberg. “Many countries will ...

Trump has given the Kremlin a financial out, allowing them to back Ukraine farther into a corner with no commitment to any ...

A telephone call between the two leaders was the latest chapter in a flurry of diplomatic maneuvering over ending the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with US President Donald Trump, the third between the two leaders this year, on Monday amid efforts to reach a ceasefire deal on Ukraine ...

Europe’s Path to Growth and Resilience. Speech by Alfred Kammer Director of the European Department at the International ...

The war in Ukraine is central to Putin’s legitimacy, leaving him no rational incentive to end it voluntarily. At least since ...

A new report suggests that Russia’s economic strength is “misleading” as the country, under heavy Western financial sanctions ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...