Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some $50 billion over the past three years, underscoring the scale of the ...

Russia has faced economic turbulence caused by sanctions imposed after Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine that are aimed at choking Moscow's military machine. Strong GDP has been driven by high ...

Putin retooled the economy to churn out record numbers of tanks and howitzers, while using sizable signing bonuses of up to a year’s salary to raise a massive army.

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and ...

Russia's economy, which defied initial sanctions and saw growth propelled by massive military spending and robust oil exports ...

Russian officials are telegraphing a slowdown of the country’s war economy -- the first major slump since the launch of the ...

The reason why Vladimir Putin is slow-walking peace talks with Ukraine might make sense—or, more specifically, dollars and cents. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Russian president has ...

New intelligence reviewed by US and Western officials suggests Russian President Vladimir Putin may have shifted his immediate focus in the Ukraine war towards the shorter-term objectives of ...

Putin Has Retooled Russia’s Economy to Focus Only on War Moscow has expanded military recruitment and boosted weapons production. Peace could jeopardize the economic gains.

Russia’s successes on the front lines in Ukraine are a big reason why Vladimir Putin isn’t yet ready to sign up to President Trump’s peace efforts. Some of his neighbors fear the success of ...

In the early stages of the war, the Russian president put the country on a footing for a long conflict. Mr Putin retooled the economy to churn out record numbers of tanks and howitzers, while ...