The US has eased sanctions on Syria, resulting in the delisting of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and various Russian entities tied to ...

The war in Ukraine, now dragging into its third year, is doing more than bleeding Russian soldiers. It is draining the trust ...

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Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...

The oligarch is the former head of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) and President of Kalmykia Republic, and had been sanctioned since 2015 for support for the former Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The possibility of another war in the Middle East has sucked attention, energy and resources away from Ukraine.