Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the U.S. "remains committed to supporting the Russian people" as they mark a national holiday. The statement issued Thursday to coincide with Russia Day said that the U.

The preeminent body tracking alleged Russian war crimes in the war with Ukraine, including the abduction of Ukrainian children, has transferred its data to Ukraine’s government and the US State Department as it prepares to shut down in the coming weeks after the Trump administration terminated its funding.

(Reuters) -The new Russian ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, pledged to work to fully restore relations with Washington as he formally presented his credentials to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported.

Two key figures in Russia’s beleaguered political opposition were targeted by Russian courts as Moscow continues its crackdown on dissent.

Russian scientists discovered a new island in the northern part of the Caspian Sea, which was confirmed during a research expedition, the press service of the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences told TASS. The scientists have yet to finalise a name for the island.

A court in Pskov said on Wednesday it had ruled that opposition politician Lev Shlosberg be placed under house arrest for two months and face unspecified restrictions on his activities at the request of state prosecutors.

Shlosberg was detained on Tuesday and charged with discrediting the Russian army after describing the war in Ukraine as a game of "bloody chess", his party said.

After its historic election to the U.N. Security Council, Latvia is preparing to address world conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war, which is right on its border.

A Russian court on Wednesday postponed legal proceedings by more than nine months in a $2.9 billion lawsuit filed by Russia's Rosatom against Finland's Fortum and Outokumpu , court filings showed.

Japan has resumed importing Russian crude oil after over a two-year hiatus, receiving a shipment via a tanker that is under US and EU sanctions, Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday. According to data from ship-tracking firm Kpler, the sanctioned vessel, Voyager, delivered the crude to a Taiyo Oil refinery on June 8. Taiyo Oil confirmed the purchase.