Ivan Nechepurenko

The Nord, a 464-foot vessel, appears to be tied to Aleksei A. Mordashov, a Russian steel mogul who is under American and European sanctions.

The absence of tanks and other heavy military vehicles on Red Square will highlight the heavy toll of the war in Ukraine.

A luxury superyacht linked to a Russian oligarch passed through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, data showed Tuesday, despite the parallel blockades maintained there by the United States and Iran.

Kremlin officials said a large strike on Kyiv would be “inevitable” if Ukraine disrupted the May 9 event, a prospect President Volodymyr Zelensky has appeared to allude to.

The event, shrunken because of security fears, adds to a sense that Moscow and other cities can no longer be insulated from the war.

The event, shrunken because of security fears, adds to a sense that Moscow and other Russian cities can no longer be insulated from the war.

The Russian leader will go to Beijing on Tuesday for talks with President Xi Jinping. The Kremlin said he had watched President Trump’s visit closely.

A firebrand governor aims to transform his region into a laboratory for the Kremlin’s reactionary ideals.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin of Russia arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a state visit in a position of relative weakness.

Online queries are more likely to turn up references to the U.S. state — a problem for the republic in the Caucasus and its people. But a move to drop the name “Georgia” has lost steam.