Russia's foreign ministry said Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden and a dozen other top officials had been banned from entering the country in a reciprocal response to U.S. sanctions.

The measure, which also applies to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, "is the consequence of the extremely Russophobic policy

The EU and U.K. on Tuesday announced a new round of sanctions against Russia and Belarus, banning exports of high-end luxury goods, increasing tariffs for Russia’s goods, and targeting more Kremlin-linked oligarchs. 

These measures are the latest Western attempts to significantly limit Russia’s trading options and harm Russia’s economy in response t

Activists in the West are taking sanctions into their own hands — at least with properties they believe are owned by Russian oligarchs close to the seat of power.

In France Sergei Savelyev, a human rights activist wrote on Facebook, “While the authorities in the U.S., England and France look for ways to pressure [Russia] economically, we are i

Russia has drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from Syrian army and allied militias to be put on standby for deployment in Ukraine, a war monitor said Tuesday.

The Kremlin said last week that volunteers, including from Syria, were welcome to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said Russian