Russia on Thursday confirmed that it had blocked WhatsApp in the country. The Kremlin said citizens can use a state-backed messenging service instead. WhatsApp issued a statement saying Russia had ...

Russia has confirmed that it has blocked instant messaging app WhatsApp in the country, instead directing Russian citizens to use its state-backed Max app. The news comes days after it emerged that ...

On January 19, Russia’s Ministry of Finance published a report assessing the country’s federal budget execution in 2025. The document found that Russia ran a federal budget deficit equal to 2.6% of ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has called for Russia's ban from international soccer to be lifted. Russia has not been allowed to participate in FIFA competition since 2022, when the country invaded ...

Alexander Ovechkin barely finished his jubilant belly slide across the ice last April before the Russian propaganda machine started revving up. The Kremlin seized the chance to portray a milestone ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russia carried out a large-scale overnight attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure using a record number of ballistic missiles, one day ...

Russia’s status at the Olympics in recent years has been complicated, to say the least. Following the revelation that numerous athletes were involved in a state-sponsored doping scheme, in 2018 in ...

KYIV — Days after negotiations to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine ended inconclusively in Abu Dhabi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia and the United States were discussing ...

Russia would have been bronze medal favorites and the team most likely to upset Canada or the United States. Jonathan Nackstrand / Getty Images The NHL is back in the Olympics after a 12-year hiatus, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk became the first high-ranking official to ask the question on everyone’s mind on Feb. 4 — Was ...

A top general in Russia's GRU, its military intelligence agency, was shot several times at a residential building in Moscow on Friday morning in an attempted assassination. Lieutenant General Vladimir ...

Chinese intermediaries enable Russian auto dealers to bypass sanctions Zero-mileage cars reclassified by traders as used to avoid automaker restrictions Automakers say they are doing their best to ...