Trump says meeting with Putin being planned as fight over Arctic set to begin - Trump calls Ukraine war ‘bloody mess’ as he refuses to rule out military action to gain control over Greenland

The incoming U.S. administration admits that its stunning polar gambit is about warding off Russian ambitions.

The trio are applauded in court as they are sentenced for their role in assisting Alexei Navalny - after a prosecution which rights groups say crosses a new threshold in the repression of dissent under Putin.

Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years.

Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko said Russia can't help but be "concerned" over President-elect Donald Trump's "unclear approaches".

Vladimir Putin is determined to further enlarge Russia, and he sees Donald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland or take it by other means as a way to whitewash Putin’s attempted conquest of Ukraine, as well as his potential future endeavors.

Donald Trump has refused to rule out using military force to seize the world's largest island, and the Kremlin's concern is no surprise, given the Arctic's growing economic and geopolitical significance to Moscow.

LONDON (Reuters) -Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony.

Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent

Senator Marco Rubio warned of China’s growing threat, and he backed NATO but said Europe needed to do more to help protect itself. His friendly, five-hour confirmation hearing seemed to all but guarantee he would be the next secretary of state.

HANOI. Jan 15 (Interfax) - Steps to further develop the Northern Sea Route (NSR), both its water area and related automobile and railroad infrastructure, will be discussed at a meeting in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in early 2025, Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev told journalists.