Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called for sanctions on Russian state-run media Tuesday, accusing President Vladimir Putin’s “propagandists” of turning into “warmongers” during the country’s deadly invasion of Ukraine. 

Navalny said the “monstrosity of lies” he witnessed on state television’s coverage of atrocities left behind by Russia’s withd

New rules imposed on Russian schools order teachers to conduct “special” lessons on Western sanctions amid Russia’s war with Ukraine.

The rules, set out by Russia’s Education Ministry, instruct teachers to hold classes on "anti-Russian sanctions,” as well as Russia’s ability to “overcome the negative consequences” imposed on them by Western countrie

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a notorious political showman and demagogue who founded Russia’s far-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) and led it for over 30 years, has died in a Moscow hospital, the lower-house State Duma confirmed Wednesday. He was 75.

According to Russian media reports, Zhirinovsky, who had been in declining health for some time, had

African leaders, opposition figures and social influencers are stepping up their support for the Kremlin even as Russia's image elsewhere is being shredded by the war in Ukraine.

Some of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most vocal defenders are pan-Africanists — advocates of the doctrine of African unity and anti-imperialism that flowered at the h