Regional authorities should support businesses willing to fill the void left by Western firms, the president has urged Western pressure on Russia intended to strangle the country’s economy has in reality turned out to be a powerful incentive for the development of domestic industries, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

The Pentagon has warned that an impasse in Congress could hinder efforts to teach Kiev’s pilots how to fly US fighter jets A looming US government shutdown amid partisan bickering in Congress threatens to slow the training of Ukrainian pilots as they prepare to fly American-made F-16 fighter jets against Russian forces, the Pentagon has…

Moscow’s eventual victory in Ukraine will lead to profound changes in the global order, but not in the ways most commentators currently predict When the explorer Vasco da Gama set out to find a water route to India in 1497, King Manuel of Portugal ordered him to gain an audience with the powerful overseas rulers,…