The latest sanctions from President Joe Biden 's administration on Russia's oil sector have severely disrupted Moscow's Arctic oil business and stalled its oil tanker fleet, according to a Tuesday report.

The incoming U.S. administration admits that its stunning polar gambit is about warding off Russian ambitions.

Trump has the levers to force Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war promptly if he dispenses with the Biden Administration’s tepid, inconsistent economic pressure.

The trio are applauded in court as they are sentenced for their role in assisting Alexei Navalny - after a prosecution which rights groups say crosses a new threshold in the repression of dissent under Putin.

Donald Trump has refused to rule out using military force to seize the world's largest island, and the Kremlin's concern is no surprise, given the Arctic's growing economic and geopolitical significance to Moscow.

Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko said Russia can't help but be "concerned" over President-elect Donald Trump's "unclear approaches".

Vladimir Putin is determined to further enlarge Russia, and he sees Donald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland or take it by other means as a way to whitewash Putin’s attempted conquest of Ukraine, as well as his potential future endeavors.

Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years.

Three lawyers for deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were on Friday sentenced to prison for “being part of an extremist group,” a Russian court ruled. Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin, who have been in pre-trial detention since October 2023, are accused of passing Navalny’s prison messages to the outside world.

Russia sentenced three of Navalny’s lawyers to prison for sharing his messages, sparking international outrage.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to allocate 100 billion rubles for the implementation of master plans for cities in the Far East and the Arctic. The head of state stated this at the plenary session of the ninth Eastern Economic Forum ...