An expert warns Iran's IRGC leadership may flee to Russia amid regime instability after high-stakes U.S. negotiations collapsed and military fractures deepen.

The Russian leader is caught between an increasingly unpopular war and shifting global headwinds

TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) - Japan plans to send several officials to Russia in late May to facilitate communication and help protect assets owned by Japanese companies operating there, the Minister of Economy,

Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing a spring of discontent.

Osechkin founded a rights group for prisoners years ago and runs a project that exposes abuses in Russia’s prison system, but he said the threats against him escalated after he began investigating alleged Russian abuses in Ukraine and helping Russian military defectors flee.

A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was due to expire Monday with both sides accusing each other of breaching the 72-hour arrangement, as American and European officials considered how they might steer the warring countries into further talks.

Russian forces are struggling to advance on the battlefield in the war against Ukraine despite some 25,000 wounded and dead a month.

Newsmax was interrupted for a breaking news segment as they aired Donald Trump answering questions at the White House, when a reporter probed him on Russia's war with Ukraine