According to SANA, Putin and the Syrian ministers discussed a range of defence-related matters, including developing military cooperation to strengthen the Syrian army’s capabilities and ‌modernising its equipment, transferring expertise and cooperation in research and development.

The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.

VLADIMIR Putin’s top brass who led a notorious private army of neo-Nazi football hooligans has died under mysterious circumstances. New accounts today claimed Stanislav ‘Spaniard’ Orlov, 44, was

Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on Ukraine, peace, war and Trump.

President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree that requires many foreign men who seek permanent residency or citizenship to join the Russian military, RFE/RL has found. The unusual measure is pushing migrants who have built lives in Russia to choose between conscription and leaving the country.

A CAR bomb in a quiet Moscow district has killed one of Vladimir Putin’s top generals, making him the third senior Russian military leader to die this year. It marks the latest killing in a