Latvia enforced an indefinite entry ban for pro-Kremlin designer Artemiy Lebedev and comedian Valery Ponomarenko, a month before he was because of perform in the country, Latvia's Foreign Ministryannounced Friday.Latvian authorities did not mention the specific factors for blacklisting Lebedev and Ponomarenko, noting just that the former is known in c

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend this month's BRICS summit in Russia, India's Foreign Ministry said Friday, months after the Indian leader met with President Vladimir Putin in a meeting that drew condemnation from Ukraine.

Modi's government has longstanding ties with Moscow that have persisted despite India's attempts to forge closer

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North Korea is sending out large-scale troop deployments to support Moscow's war versus Ukraine, with 1,500 unique forces currently stationed in Russia's Far East where they are going through training, Seoul's intelligence company stated Friday.The National Intelligence Service (NIS) launched comprehensive satellite images of what it said was Pyongyang's very first

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Russia’s agricultural safety watchdogbanned the import of tomatoes, melons, wheat and other food products from neighboring Kazakhstan amid ongoing trade disputes between the two countries.

“The decision was made because Kazakhstan’s competent authorities failed to take measures to ensure the phytosanitary safety of [products sent to] Russian ter

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Washington unveiled new sanctions Thursday targeting China-based companies linked to the production of drones that Russia has deployed in its war against Ukraine.

It marks the first time the U.S. sanctioned Chinese companies “directly developing and producing complete weapons systems in partnership with Russian firms,” the U.S. Treasury Department s

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Authorities in southwestern Russia’s Belgorod region on Fridaydenied reports of Ukrainian troops launching an incursion into a village on the border with Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.

Open-source intelligence bloggersspeculated earlier this week that Ukraine may have opened a “new axis” in the Belgorod region village of Zhuravlevka to cut off one of the

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