Putin was recognized for his work in turning Russia into a major money-laundering center; for enabling organized crime in Crimea and in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine; for his unblemished ...

President Donald Trump announced in an interview published Saturday that he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He wants to see people stop dying,” Trump told the New York Post.

Russia plays hardball on Ukraine peace discussions after Trump talks of Putin contact Europecategory· February 10, 2025 It would be the first known direct conversation between Putin and a U.S ...

Speaking in Kyiv , the Zelensky told ITV News that any attempt to stop the war without ironclad security guarantees would ...

MOSCOW − President Donald Trump said he has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about ending the war in Ukraine, the New York Post reported, the first known direct ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday he could “neither confirm nor deny” reports of a conversation between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump, Russia’s ...

A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army and calling President Vladimir Putin an “idiot” fell to his death from a window this week — just moments after authorities raided his ...

Meanwhile, fighting appears to have escalated in the Russian region of Kursk. Follow the latest on the Ukraine war. Donald Trump said he held a phone call with Vladimir Putin about ending the war ...

M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...