A defector offers insights into the daily life and paranoia of Russia's president.

Wimbledon lifted a ban on Russian and Belarusian tennis players in time for its 2023 tournament.

Moldova has passed a law labeling Romanian its national language amid suspected Moscow-fueled protests. 

Ukraine's legislative body is considering banning war-themed products after companies began naming foods and drinks after wartime events and massacres. 

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova. Who is she?

Russian President and Indicted War Criminal Vladimir Putin had a bad day.

A Ukrainian petition calls for the renaming of Russia to Moscovia. 

The International Fencing Federation greenlit the return of Russian and Belarussian fencers to tournaments — and the Olympics.

Russia is developing a new type of military strategy to account for the use of nuclear weapons.

Russia reactivates tourism from China for strategic reasons: to buy weapons from Beijing for the war in Ukraine.

Russia halts the supply of oil to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline.

Hackers intercepted radio stations in Crimea and played the Ukrainian national anthem, followed by the words, "Crimea will return home."