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Nikolai Patrushev, a top ally of the Russian leader for decades, put in motion the assassination of the mutinous chief of the Wagner mercenary group.

The Russian president blamed Washington for masterminding the 2014 coup in Kiev, which led to the current conflict

The two nations are cooperating in fields ranging from infrastructure projects to education, the president has said

• Russian leader met UAE president before traveling to Riyadh
• Putin will discuss oil cooperation with Saudi Crown Prince

The trip is part of a series of diplomatic meetings by the Russian leader, and comes as Ukraine tries to shore up eroding Western support for its war effort.

The International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year

The Il-96-400M is a modernized adaptation of an iconic Soviet aircraft

The number of Ukrainian troops killed since the counteroffensive began has now surpassed 83,000, Russian Defense Ministry data shows

Businesses from ‘unfriendly’ countries have amassed more than $18bn in earnings since the start of the invasion of Ukraine

• Oil prices are surging again – and that's making Russia a lot richer.
• The Kremlin's crude export revenues jumped $1.8 billion last month, according to the International Energy Agency.
• The surge comes with key benchmarks close to 10-month highs on recent OPEC+ production cuts.

‘Many interesting projects’ are open for Moscow and Pyongyang despite UN sanctions, the Russian leader has said

The North Korean leader is making his first trip abroad in more than four years, likely aboard a luxury carriage preferred by his family

Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been attacking Ukraine’s economy by taking aim at its crucial ports on the Black Sea. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how Moscow’s strategy has worked, and what the West is doing to try and counter its blockade.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin, a US official has told the BBC's US partner CBS.

• Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed. 
• In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric. 
• BBC Russian asks former Western diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin alluded to threats to his safety in a video which appears to have been filmed days before he died in a plane crash.

DNA testing shows that all those listed on the flight manifest were indeed on board, the Investigative Committee has said

President Vladimir Putin has called on all employees of Wagner and other Russian private military contractors to take an oath of allegiance to the Russian state.

While Putin's spokesperson denied that he'd killed Prigozhin, a former Kremlin official told Insider that the rebellion made his death "inevitable."

Paramilitary group has an estimated 5,000 men and lucrative businesses across at least four African nations.