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Western countries continue to urge Russia to take "concrete" steps to ease tensions over its military buildup at the border with Ukraine as Moscow's claim that it has started to withdraw troops from the area is met with skepticism. 

A well-known Russian political analyst has been detained along with his son after a search of his Moscow apartment.

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The Taliban Defense Ministry says it has created at least five military units in Afghanistan's north and west, bordering Central Asia. Taliban officials insist the move is aimed at strengthening security in those areas and will contribute to regional stability, but not everyone is so sure.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed ties between Russia and Brazil on February 16 as he hosted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for talks at the Kremlin. Bolsonaro snubbed U.S. calls to call off his trip, his first to Russia as Brazil’s leader. The visit came at a point of heightened...

Talk of Russian recognition of the separatist-claimed parts of eastern Ukraine is a "political tactic," analysts say. Moscow remains focused on forcing Kyiv to implement the Kremlin's version of the Minsk agreements.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz flies to Moscow on February 15 for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the latest effort by a Western leader to convince the Kremlin to choose diplomacy amid simmering tensions over a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine.

Russian war threats drag on Ukraine’s economy, and on small businesses, at a time when the country is struggling with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Russian authorities have cancelled the residence permit of Ukrainian citizen Oleksandra Sveshnikova, who is the wife of the well-known Russian rights activist Ildar Dadin.

The trial of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has started inside a penal colony on new charges of embezzlement -- which he calls politically motivated -- that could see as many as 10 more years tacked on to his prison time.