U.S. President Donald Trump's trade wars may hurt the Russian economy in ways that go beyond falling oil prices and shrinking budget revenues.

If the U.S. and China fail to reach a resolution, Beijing could devalue the yuan, making Chinese goods more competitive and threatening Russia’s domestic producers, an adviser to the head of Russia’s Central

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French authorities on Tuesday accused Russian military intelligence of being behind a series of cyberattacks against the country over the past decade, including against an organization involved in the 2024 Paris Olympics and President Emmanuel Macron's first presidential campaign.

Since 2021, a branch of Russia's GRU military intelligence service

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko arrived in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Tuesday for World War II commemorations.

The two heads of state laid flowers at the Stalingrad memorial complex at the start of the visit, after which they addressed a Russian-Belarusian parliamentary forum, called “Great

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Interpol is investigating a professional training program for African women linked to a major Russian drone manufacturer, Bloomberg reported, citing the head of Interpol’s Botswana bureau. 

The agency is probing whether the program, Alabuga Start, is involved in human trafficking following a review of its social media posts, Detective Senior

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Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was tortured during the year she spent in Russian detention, and her body was returned to Ukraine with several organs missing, according to a joint investigation published on Tuesday.

Roshchyna, 27, disappeared in the summer of 2023 while reporting on black site prisons in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.

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Russia’s two largest lenders, Sberbank and VTB, reported a sharp increase in delinquencies on mortgage and unsecured consumer loans in the first quarter of 2025, according to their IFRS financial reports reviewed by the RBC news website.

At Sberbank, the volume of mortgage loans showing signs of distress surged 90% between January and March,

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