1966: The Government announces that a Fast Reactor will be built at Dounreay power station in Scotland. On the same day, singer/actress Sophie Tucker dies aged 79. 1967: Canadian conductor Percy Faith ...

The Russians were among the first Europeans to sense California's potential. Had they not sold their settlement there in 1841 ...

The region's governor said the drone had struck a family home. He said the father and another child had been injured as well.

This is the story of the Decembrist revolt of 1825, in which a group of army officers tried to change the course of Russian history by overturning the country's traditional systems of autocratic ...

The Royal Navy has been monitoring a Russian spy ship after it was spotted around UK waters earlier this week, the defence secretary has told MPs. John Healey said the vessel, Yantar, was used for ...

A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.

British Defense Secretary John Healey told Parliament on Wednesday the Royal Navy was tracking a "Russian spy ship" that passed through U.K. waters, warning Russia's President Vladimir Putin ...

If that happens, he could, at least in part, be guided by the way Vladimir Putin dealt with his own looming term-limit problem following his election for a fourth term as Russian president in 2018.

The declining health of Russia's economy is as clear as day — or night, a finance minister said Wednesday. Elisabeth Svantesson, the finance minister of Sweden, said she and her officials were ...

Russia’s economic resilience is defying expectations, enabling the Kremlin to sustain its war efforts in Ukraine despite mounting challenges, and raising doubts about hopes for a swift resolution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, emphasising the two countries’ close ties a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US president.