Russia

President Putin has told the domestic intelligence service to go after Western-sponsored enemies at home

The EU ban puts close to one-quarter of Russia's refining output at risk and will cut into budget revenues

Moscow says it is worried about an Ukrainian attack on Moldova's separatist region -- a rumour it fabricated itself

The Kremlin was silent on the anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine -- it had little to celebrate

The 100,000-strong new Russian diaspora will boost the Serbian economy without affecting local politics

Russian crude has stopped flowing to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline but Czech supplies are continuing thus far

On the first anniversary of the Ukraine war, the US government introduced many new sanctions against Russian entities

Patchy sanctions and deep new buyer discounts are changing minerals markets that Russia, Ukraine and Belarus dominated