Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Moscow on Nov. 28, praising the European leader for a "balanced" stance on the war in Ukraine. The two leaders are meeting to discuss energy cooperation and peace talks on Ukraine amid a new U.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that a U.S. delegation is expected to arrive in Moscow in the first half of next week.

Russia's central bank said on Thursday that central banks in emerging markets were buying gold to diversify their international reserves due to an attempt by the G7 to use billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets.

European leaders succeeded in bringing themselves in from the cold and softening Moscow’s terms, but Kyiv still faces an unenviable choice

The trip to Moscow is the second since last year for Orbán, who is widely considered Putin’s closest partner among all EU leaders. Hungary is one of only a few EU countries to continue importing large quantities of Russian fossil fuels, and Orbán has strongly opposed efforts by the bloc to wean its 27 member nations off Russian energy supplies.

US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will lead a delegation for talks in Russia next week, a Kremlin official said, as Donald Trump pushes for a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine struck a heat and power station in the Moscow region on Sunday with drones, triggering a major fire and cutting off heating for thousands in one of Kyiv's biggest attacks to date on a power station deep inside Russia.

North Korea has made Russian a required language for students beginning in the fourth grade – as Moscow’s ties with the hermit kingdom have been growing since its invasion of Ukraine.

Silenced since the start of the war in Ukraine, former Russian liberals have hardened their rhetoric following the collapse of ceasefire negotiations. Once critical of the Kremlin, they now blame Europe,