ANDREA KENDALL-TAYLOR is Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. From 2015 to 2018, she was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.

Russia launched an intense aerial assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, marking a second consecutive night of ferocious attacks on the country, as Russia ramps up its bombardment more than three years into the war.

Russia plans to recruit up to 1 million Indian workers by 2025 to address labor shortages amid the Ukraine war, with Yekaterinburg set to host a new Indian consulate.

The senior official said Russia has been forced to rely increasingly on such amateurs since hundreds of Moscow’s spies were expelled from Western countries following an operation to poison former Russian intelligence officer Sergey Skripal in the U.K. in 2018. That led to the death of a British woman — and a major response from the West.

Russian drones attacked Kyiv early on July 10 for the second straight night, injuring at least two people and sparking fires, officials said as air raid sirens were activated across more than half of the country to warn of the widespread attack.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow is ready to refill Iran’s depleted uranium stocks — as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Tehran’s enriched atomic

On September 20-21, the World Peoples Assembly will hold the First World Public Assembly (WOA) in Moscow, Russia an international humanitarian forum bringing together leaders of public diplomacy, representatives of civil society and experts.

Russia's former transport minister was found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound, hours after President Vladimir Putin fired him.