Russians are happier than ever despite the war in Ukraine and the crumbling...
An amazing poll by Gallup and Romir, a Russian research company, suggests that Russians were more than twice as happy at the end of 2014 than they were in 2013, and at their happiest in at least three...
View ArticleThe man who was once Russia's largest foreign investor says he should've...
Hedge fund manager William "Bill" Browder was once the largest foreign investor in Russia, making his investors piles of money, but if he had to do it all over again, he never would have entered the...
View ArticleNATO and Russia are completely divided on Ukraine
NATO and Russia failed to narrow their differences over the Ukraine crisis in talks on Saturday but agreed they would keep talking to each other.The alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg held a...
View ArticlePutin: 'We are not going to wage war on anyone'
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday Russia did not plan to wage war on anyone although a world order where one leader tells others what they can do would not suit Moscow.His comments were...
View ArticleThere's a radical new theory about the devastating hack on Sony
There's a new twist in the story of the devastating hack on Sony Pictures late last year: A security firm says Russian hackers also secretly played a part in the attack. And, the firm says, the hackers...
View ArticleThe latest Kremlin crackdown on opposition is 'unprecedented in post-Soviet...
If the West hoped economy-busting sanctions over the Kremlin’s apparent military support for rebels in Ukraine would spark mass protests against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s long rule, then—so...
View ArticleOutraged Russians are Instagramming their food-inflation nightmare
Food prices are out of control in Russia.Inflation in the country is at its highest level since the financial crisis (about 11.4%), and some say it could get up to 17% around March.Things have gotten...
View ArticleRussian media is dying out
One-fifth of the media outlets now operating in Russia could shut their doors by this time next year. That’s the hard truth put forth by a cadre of journalists in Moscow who say these losses are part...
View ArticleWestern leaders warn that this Ukraine peace bid might be the last chance to...
Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Western leaders challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday to prove he wants peace in Ukraine, warning both sides a new Franco-German peace drive may be a "last...
View ArticleBritain says Putin is acting like a 'tyrant' over Ukraine
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday of acting like a "tyrant" over Ukraine, but said Kiev's forces could not defeat Russia's army on the battlefield and that...
View ArticleRussian banks are set to lose 1 trillion rubles this year
The Russian central bank's rate drop last week will not be enough to prevent the country's banking system from posting heavy losses this year, which could run to as much as 1 trillion rubles ($14.5...
View ArticleWhy North Korea and Iran make nearly perfect partners
In this excerpt from "The Russia-China Axis: The New Cold War And America's Crisis Of Leadership," authors Douglas E. Schoen and Melik Kaylan explain how rogue regimes align and use proxies to...
View ArticleRussia is reportedly getting military bases in an EU state
Cyprus has offered Russia to have air and navy bases on its territory.Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades announced that the country is ready to host Russian aviation and naval bases. The official...
View ArticlePutin says Kiev is on 'dead-end track' in east Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Kiev must stop its military operation in east Ukraine and cease exerting economic pressure on rebel-held regions, warning that it was on a...
View ArticleAlarming GIF shows Russian-backed rebels slowly taking over eastern Ukraine
Ukraine's Pravda has released a shocking GIF depicting the advance of Russian-backed separatists across eastern Ukraine. The GIF is compiled from five months of battlefield maps released by Ukraine's...
View ArticleRussians wrote an open letter to Putin to ask for help with foreign-currency...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians with foreign-currency mortgages have written an open letter to President Vladimir Putin seeking help with repayments that have soared because of the ruble's plunge, saying...
View ArticleKremlin: Don't issue ultimatums to Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be spoken to in the language of ultimatums at talks on the Ukraine crisis, a Russian radio station quoted the Kremlin as saying on...
View Article7 reasons why Russia-backed separatists are winning in Ukraine
The situation is Ukraine is bad and getting worse, to the point where the U.S. is considering sending lethal aid as many experts are saying America is running out of time to blunt Russian aggression...
View ArticlePutin offers to take vast Sochi hotel from oligarch
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered late Sunday to take on a vast hotel in Sochi, home to the 2014 Winter Games, from an oligarch and compensate him for the construction costs.An Associated Press...
View ArticlePutin: Russia and Egypt may exclude US dollar and use national currencies in...
Russia and Egypt may replace the U.S. dollar with their national currencies for settlement of accounts in bilateral trade, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Egyptian media...
View Article