Thanks to the Soviet leader’s repressions the Orthodox Church gained many new martyrs, the cleric had argued The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has distanced itself from a priest who consecrated a new monument to Joseph Stalin unveiled in the northwestern town of Velikiye Luki earlier this week.

A NATO official recently suggested that Kiev could end up relinquishing its claims on Russian land The Ukrainian government should never cede any of the country’s territories to end the conflict with Russia, a group of Ukrainian MPs has argued. The proposed statement came days after a NATO official suggested that Kiev could abandon its…

The country’s economy is weak due to its dependency on energy exports, the top EU diplomat has claimed The Russian economy is small compared to the other major geopolitical players, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in an interview with the El Pais news outlet published on Saturday.