China’

s growing influence pushes Japan and Russia closer;

Threat of adoption ban too much for Ireland

The "

laughably bogus"

trial of Aleksei Navalny;

The Kremlin threatens another adoption ban

Moscow releases retaliatory blacklist;

Putin’

s popularity on the decline?

Patriarch Kirill calls feminism a “

very dangerous phenomenon”

U.S. releases Russian blacklist

Russia to establish bases in Afghanistan Putin eliminates regional elections