Yura Borisov, who is nominated for an Academy Award on Sunday, is pulling off a rare feat: pleasing audiences at home in Russia as well as in the West.
From prison and from exile, supporters of Moscow have been ramping up social media posts aimed at backing Russia’s call for elections in Ukraine and slamming President Volodymyr Zelensky....
It was not a theft, Hamptons police ruled, but acrimony erupted after a lender decided it could not arrange a loan, but that a painting used as collateral would still need to be sold to cover its costs....
“Anora” is neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian. But its Oscar nominations have been portrayed as a national victory in Russia....
“The first contacts with the new American administration give us some hope,” the Russian president said in televised comments on Thursday....
The fresh deployment comes after North Korea suffered heavy casualties on the front lines in Russia’s war against Ukraine, the South’s spy agency says....
Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government....
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain cut international aid to raise military spending. He’s hoping to make a case for Ukraine at the White House....
President Trump said Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, would visit Washington on Friday as part of a deal for Ukrainian mineral wealth. His position could ultimately embolden Russia....
A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia....
China dominates in critical minerals, and President Trump has turned to high-pressure tactics to acquire them....
A copy of the agreement obtained by The New York Times says that the United States “supports Ukraine’s effort to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace.”...
Also, Timothée Chalamet is waging an unusual awards campaign. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday....
A bill before the governor would prohibit adding fluoride to water systems. The move could affect children’s health, experts warned....
The demonstration drew only a handful of people, but showed how some Ukrainians fear that Washington is drifting away from backing Ukraine now that President Trump is in power....
A draft agreement discussed on Tuesday does not include a $500 billion payout the Trump administration demanded earlier....
The White House and Ukraine struck a deal on strategic resources, a pact that speaks volumes about President Trump’s geopolitical strategy....
A new proposal would impose steep levies on Chinese-made ships arriving at U.S. ports, threatening to increase costs for imports....
When it comes to the war in Ukraine, President Trump finds common cause with the world’s outlier states and stands against traditional U.S. allies like Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan and Italy....
President Trump, who had insisted he wanted “payback” for past military aid to Kyiv, suggested President Volodymyr Zelensky would visit Washington this week to sign an agreement, which he called a “very big deal.”...
For the next four years, at least, the America we knew is over....
From influential platforms, Mr. Turski, an Auschwitz survivor from Poland, warned the world of rising antisemitism and the perils of indifference to it....
The country has a bounty of minerals and other natural resources, including gas and oil, but they may not be easy to extract....
Their pointed remarks followed votes on Monday in which the United States broke with allies to side with Russia over the war in Ukraine....
What happens when we stop “living within the truth.”...
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, epitomized how the continent’s leaders are trying to navigate President Trump’s increasingly hostile administration....
As President Trump turns toward Russia, Taiwan grapples with its reliance on U.S. support in the face of conflict with China....
The president has sent the message that he’s committed to tariffs, and that he sees room for deals with Ukraine and Russia....
There is a broad reckoning in Ukraine: Washington can no longer be relied upon as a supporter. But Kyiv still has agency on the battlefield and can seek increased support from Europe....
Plus, Roberta Flack remembered....
The U.S. is embracing European far-right parties in sympathy with Moscow — the opposite of how Washington dealt with Europe’s Communist parties in the Cold War....
