Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the ...

By turning his nose up at the US-proposed ceasefire, Vladimir Putin has deployed a typically skilful diplomatic negotiating ploy – agreeing with the US president ‘in principle’ while disagreeing in ...

In truth, Putin is in no rush to agree a ceasefire, which would only benefit Ukraine, whose troops are being hounded out of ...

Known in France and on social networks under several false identities, the daughter of a Russian millionaire was born in 2003 from an extramarital relationship with the Russian president, who never ...

Putin and Trump’s envoy hold secret talks on the Ukraine truce. Will Russia agree to the US-backed peace deal?

Indeed, as Ukraine is discovering, to its cost, the president’s very notion of a “deal” can be hazy. Trump can be so fixated ...

Self-declared master deal-maker Donald Trump seems to have abandoned key tenets of his own 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal." ...