An expert warns Iran's IRGC leadership may flee to Russia amid regime instability after high-stakes U.S. negotiations collapsed and military fractures deepen.

A war game scenario by NATO allies involves Sweden facing a threat and Ukraine on hand to advise on drone warfare.

By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW, May 12 - Russia has cut its economic growth forecast for 2026 and the following three years but left unchanged the projected oil price despite the spike in global prices driven by the war in the Middle East,

Moscow blanketed in heavy security despite last-minute announcement of three-day ceasefire with Ukraine

Osechkin founded a rights group for prisoners years ago and runs a project that exposes abuses in Russia’s prison system, but he said the threats against him escalated after he began investigating alleged Russian abuses in Ukraine and helping Russian military defectors flee.

Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, with both sides claiming to have suffered casualties in drone and artillery strikes over the past 24 hours.

Tensions are high as Russia prepares to celebrate its most important secular holiday. Fears about security amid the war with Ukraine and signs of domestic discontent are casting a shadow over annual celebrations in Moscow’s Red Square.

Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, known as Rosmolodezh, has put out a tender to build a unified platform for guiding young people through “life situations” and ensuring the “comprehensive moral and spiritual development” of teenagers,