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

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, President Putin's main political opponent before his death in prison last February, had written in his memoir that he would "die in prison"

The country celebrated on Monday 30 September the second anniversary of the illegal annexation of four Ukrainian territories, two of which were self-declared People's Republics at war with the central government

180.000 new soldiers will be drafted into the Russian army, bringing to 1,5 million the total number of soldiers in service; if confirmed, the decision would make the Russian army the second largest in the world after the Chinese one