Russia

The Kremlin appears to be sending the signal that no degree of effectiveness can protect someone from punishment for disloyalty.

DNA tests are underway to identify deceased Wagner Group members as the Kremlin rejects Western claims it was culpable

Preliminary findings suggest it wasn’t surface-to-air missile that took down Wagner leader’s plane

The Kremlin seems to be rid of a dangerous challenger. But at what price?

The West should stop talking about sending arms to Kiev and engage diplomatically with Moscow, the ex-French president has said

Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger in a fatal plane crash.

Russia is a country full of surprises.

The Wagner Group chief was traveling on board a private jet that crashed in Russia with no survivors

One of Russia's leading military figures, Gen Sergei Surovikin, has reportedly lost his job as air force chief after weeks of speculation about his disappearance from public view.

The public broadcast of police raids on Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin’s home and office are an obvious attack on the mercenary’s cherished reputation as a straight-talking patriot fighting against corruption – and, experts say, a warning to anyone else who might challenge President Vladimir Putin’s rule. 

Prigozhin’s press secretary declined to comment on the incident, Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak reported.

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said.

At least 10 people died in the crash of a Wagner-linked private plane outside Moscow, according to Russia’s emergency services. Yevgeniy Prighozin, who led a failed mutiny in June, was on the plane’s manifest, according to a state-run outlet.

More than a dozen countries have plans for missions to the moon in the coming years

Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid. 

A Russian missile strike on Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv on Saturday killed seven people and wounded more than 100 others on Saturday, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said. 

At least two civilians were killed when Russian air strikes hit an abandoned water pumping station in Syria's rebel-held northwest, rescuers said Wednesday, amid a recent uptick in attacks by Damascus ally Moscow.

According to a recent Google Flights search, there were no direct or connecting flights from Minsk to the United States.