Russia-US

New Russian space launch vehicle undergoing final tests, top official says

Plans call for the new two-stage rocket, capable of placing payloads of up to 17 metric tonnes in orbit, to be used in place of Zenit rockets.

FILE PHOTO: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with a Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 22, 2026.
US President Donald Trump looks on next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a press conference following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025; illustrative.

Trump rejects Putin's proposal to move Iranian enriched uranium to Russia, end war - Axios

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia February 9, 2026.

Russia accuses US and Israel of trying to drag Arab countries into wider Middle East conflict

Chinese and US flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing, April 8, 2025.

US accuses China of secret nuclear testing as it calls for broad new arms treaty after New START


Ex-IDF intel. officials: Balanced Israeli combativeness can cause Russia to reduce hostility

INSS gives recipe for calibrated confrontation with Moscow to reduce support for Iran, Houthis, Hamas without leading to conflagration

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Trump envoy in Russia for talks with Putin about Ukraine

US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a Ukraine peace deal and a potential Trump-Putin summit.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they meet in Helsinki, Finland July 16, 2018

Kremlin says it is hard to imagine talks with US on new nuclear arms reduction treaty

The bleak assessment from Moscow comes amid the disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties which sought to slow the arms race and reduce the risk of nuclear war.

 THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

Cautious of Trump's Russian pivot, Israel debates sharing intel, NBC reports

Some officials in other allied countries played down the idea that Trump's policies on Russia would disrupt intelligence cooperation that dates back decades.

 RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS with front pages dedicated to the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, are laid out at a newsstand in Moscow, last week.

US deports Russian man wanted for armed robbery, Moscow says

Koshelev, it said, had been part of a group that had stolen $1.5 million at gunpoint from a courier at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport in 2014.

 Russian and US state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019

Israeli national handed two year sentence in US for shipping aviation parts to Russia

Gal Haimovich, a 49-year-old Israeli national, was sentenced for using his international freight forwarding company to violate US export control laws.

 Russia selling oil for gold in September

Americans, Russians have discussed Ukraine war through Swiss side channel, sources say

Officials held under-the-radar US-Russia talks before Trump's inauguration to discuss Ukraine war solutions.

 President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018.

Saudi Crown Prince, Russia's wealth fund chief were involved in US prisoner release, source says

Marc Fogel's Russian lawyer blamed the Biden administration for the delay in his client's release.

US President Donald Trump greets released American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, who had been held in Russia since 2021, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, February 11, 2025.

Trump repeats warning to Hamas to release hostages soon or face consequences

Trump said he would discuss ways to bring an end to the Ukraine war with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

 (Illustrative) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and president-elect Donald Trump over a backdrop of hostage posters.

You may be 'hunted': Russia tells citizens not to visit US, major Western countries

Both Moscow and Washington say their citizens have been wrongfully imprisoned and their diplomats harassed increasingly as relations soured.

 Cat morning on Red Square. Moscow.