Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd pledged a five-year, $2.2 billion program to upgrade the Bruce Highway in Queensland if Labor was elected. The promise bettered the Federal Government’s $2 billion ...

How the Kremlin's plan for a quick conquest turned into a quagmire ...

Meanwhile, Russian elites are concerned with Vladimir Putin's efforts to wage a full-scale war in Ukraine. Submit your questions for our correspondents in the box below.

Putin and Khrushchev represent two opposing strategic options, neither an offshoot of the unpopular war in Ukraine. For his ...

Meanwhile, a supermarket in the Russian-held city of Donetsk is reportedly hit in a Ukrainian attack. Submit your questions for our correspondents in the box below.

Russia’s defence ministry may believe its forces are “defeating” Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the Kursk region, but Vladimir Putin clearly doesn’t. He has sent one of his toughest ...

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...

Putin sends General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to organise the fight back before Donald Trump forces peace negotiations Russia’s defence ministry may believe its forces are “defeating” Ukraine’s ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. The White House seized a rare chance to ...

A renegade part of Moldova once boasted it would become a Russian-speaking Switzerland. Now without gas, its leader assured residents, “We will not allow a societal collapse.” By Andrew ...

China and Russia are deepening energy ties, with natural gas exports exceeding contractual agreements. At the same time, in face of economic pressures, Russia is selling stakes in uranium deposits ...