Lavrov accused multiple member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of making threatening statements about their nuclear stockpiles or the potential use of nuclear weapons.
Russia's economy will be under major strain in 2025, economists told BI. One said stagnation was similar to the USSR at the start of the 1980s.
Volunteers are grappling with environmental havoc across more than 35 miles of coastline, after at least 3,700 tons of heavy oil spilled into the Kerch Strait.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Bank interest rates on deposits and loans rose much higher than the central bank's key rate, causing a slowdown in lending activity.
Volunteers helping to clean up a major oil spill along Russia's Black Sea coast appealed in a video released on Monday for President Vladimir Putin to urgently send federal aid, saying that they and local authorities were overwhelmed.
President Joe Biden is weighing major new sanctions against Russia’s energy sector in his final weeks in office.
Vladimir Putin is preparing for further offensive attacks by mass producing the new intermediate hypersonic ballistic missile.
Russia launched a missile and drone attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, causing widespread power outages and targeting thermal power plants.