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Russian President Vladimir Putin is inching closer to seizing president-for-life status in Moscow, despite a lowered approval rating in recent months and a range of coronavirus-connected challenges to his carefully crafted image as a 21st century czar. Mr. Putin, who has worked behind-the-scenes since early this year to engender sweeping constitutional changes that would allow…

Russia will soon have the ability to counter hypersonic weapons deployed by adversaries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday. Hypersonic weapons fly at speeds at least five times the speed of sound — or Mach 5 — and are widely viewed as a game-changing military technology. For years specialists and military insiders have warned the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said Russia has seen minimal losses from the COVID-19 pandemic and has handled the situation better than the U.S. — which he says has been distracted by political priorities. Russia, with a population of 144.5 million, has reported one of the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world…

The coronavirus outbreak in Russia is under “full control,” President Vladimir Putin said Sunday, despite the country having reported a record rise in daily cases overnight of the highly contagious virus. Russia has reported 42,853 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and 6,060 in the last day. The country has reported…

A newly declassified section of a Justice Department inspector general’s report shows not only that the Kremlin fed disinformation for the anti-Trump dossier but also that Vladimir Putin was in a good position to know about it. The Russian president and the dossier’s author, Christopher Steele, had close associations among Russia’s cadre of business-ruling oligarchs,…