Here’s a look at the life of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Personal Birth date: August 30, 1954 (some sources say August 31) Birth place: Kopys, Belarus Full name: Alexander Grigorievich ...

If you left a pot of rice out overnight, you might want to reconsider eating it the next day. Rice contains a bacterium ...

(CBC) Russian leader Vladimir Putin has established himself as the most impactful world leader of this millennium. To mark his 25th anniversary of being in power, this two-hour CBC News original ...

Vladimir Putin has again been caught hiding his poor eyesight as he had trouble reading his own war script. The warring Russian dictator refuses to wear glasses, and so needs giant-sized print on ...

Vladimir Putin timed the latest bombardment on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv for Sir Keir Starmer’s visit. The British prime minister arrived in the city for a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky this ...

the US has announced a barrage of new sanctions on Russia that will greatly increase the leverage that Donald Trump will have in negotiations with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

It started out rather differently than we now sometimes imagine it. When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a ...

Vladimir Putin, then prime minister, stepped into the position on an acting basis – and has ruled over Russia in one role or another ever since. The authoritarian leader has retained and ...

Vladimir Putin plans to demand that Ukraine drastically reduce its military ties with NATO and adopt neutral status with a limited military during negotiations with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ...

The Russian strikes - hitting vital energy facilities in the coldest weeks of winter - were led by Vladimir Putin's Tu-22 and Tu-95 strategic bombers. The onslaught was seen as instant revenge for ...

Increasingly confident he has the advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to achieve his goal that Kyiv never join the North Atlantic Treaty ...

While Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz broke months of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic isolation with a phone call in November, NATO’s eastern-most members are acutely aware of ...