In the final working week before Christmas, EU leaders gathered for a meeting that might prove historic – but not for the reasons they hoped.

EU chiefs have slammed Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico following his Kremlin meeting with Vladimir Putin on Sunday. Fico secured a new deal for cheap Russian fossil fuels, essential to Slovakia as it's among the EU nations most dependent on Russian ...

US President-elect Donald Trump announced a possible meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the EU is working on new sanctions against Russia. Read more about what happened over the weekend.

Brussels was enraged after Viktor Orban met with Putin in Moscow - now another EU leader has met the Russian President in the Kremlin.

And yet, when the town’s residents cast their ballots in last month’s presidential election, they overwhelmingly voted for Călin Georgescu, the candidate who showed every sign of being the preferred choice of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in the Kremlin on Sunday with Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to Moscow by an EU leader since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine began in 2022.

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 ...

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico met Russian President Vladimir Putin in a previously unannounced visit to the Kremlin on Sunday for talks, Russian state media reported, leading to dismay among opposition lawmakers in Bratislava.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Donald Trump on Thursday to ally with Europe to stop Russia and save his country amid fears the NATO sceptic U.S. President-elect could deal a setback to Kyiv by cutting American support for its war effort.

Samuel Ramani, an associate fellow at the RUSI think tank and the author of the book Russia in Africa, described the collapse of Assad’s regime as a “geopolitical and status defeat for Russia” that not only creates logistical problems but undermines its reputation with pro-Kremlin dictators in Africa.