Europe Russia Russia and Ukraine said they released 75 people each in a prisoner exchange brokered by the United Arab Emirates: the first time prisoners have been exchanged between the two countries in the past four months
Europe Russia The Russian wrestling federation has declared that 10 of its wrestlers who were offered a place as neutrals at the Paris Olympics will refuse to compete
Europe Russia According to the New York Times, Moscow suffered significant losses in May in Ukraine due to waves of frontal attacks: figures from Western intelligence speak of one thousand dead and wounded per day
Europe Russia Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un signed an agreement in which they pledge to help each other in the event of aggression against either country, a pact cementing a rapidly expanding partnership that has worried a number of neighboring countries and the West
Europe Russia The Ministry of Defence said it had begun exercises with 'tactical' nuclear weapons, those less powerful than conventional nuclear bombs, to test the army's readiness in the event of a threat to Russian territorial integrity