Since the late 1990s, multipolarity has been a key focus in Russia’s foreign policy doctrine. A more balanced world has been seen as a counterweight to the global hegemony of the US and its allies. Thus, modern international relations were considered to be effectively in transition from unipolarity, with Washington losing its grip on dominance, to…

The death toll from a horrific terrorist attack at a packed music venue outside Moscow has risen to 60, Russia’s Investigative Committee said in the early hours of Saturday. According to health officials, nearly 150 are wounded, including several children.

Kiev’s backers been unable to define what their ‘as long as it takes’ pledges mean, according to Aleksey Danilov The West does not have a clear picture of how the Ukraine conflict will end, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Aleksey Danilov lamented in a TV interview on Friday.