Thomas Grove

Last month Russian military officers flew from St. Petersburg to the country's Kaliningrad exclave nestled between two NATO countries and the Baltic Sea.

WASHINGTON—Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe made a surprise visit to Moscow on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, his first publicly known trip to the Russian capital.

By sending his CIA chief, Trump is trying a new tack to tamp down Russian aggression

John Ratcliffe's diplomatic mission to Russia this week was so sensitive that even some senior White House officials didn't know about it ahead of time.

Residents in Moscow got a rare taste of direct democracy when they were asked to a weigh in on a monument to Alexander Pushkin.

Russians in the capital got a brief and rare taste of direct democracy on Friday.

NATO countries see Moscow’s appetite for conflict increasing as it flounders against Ukraine.

Russia has turned up the heat on Kyiv's allies in Europe, with a string of grayzone activities aimed at sowing fear, as it struggles to advance on

In the months since Russian President Vladimir Putin last met his most important strategic partner, China's Xi Jinping, their wartime fortunes have sharply diverged.

The shifting power status of the two leaders will be front and center on Monday, when they are set to meet in Kyrgyzstan.