A Russian politician has said the Kremlin's initial refusal to confirm or deny contacts between Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump had helped the latter. Duma deputy Oleg Morozov told the Russia 1 channel that Moscow was being "very careful to support Trump" by remaining ambiguous on whether contact had been made between the two.

The Kremlin said it expects a Russian imprisoned in the US to be freed under the deal with President Donald Trump that saw American school teacher Marc Fogel released by Russia.

Russian authorities have zealously prosecuted people with links to Aleksei A. Navalny’s organization inside Russia in the year since he died.

Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent dissident, died on February 16, 2024. Without him, the opposition in Russia remains fragmented, and the political process has ground to a halt.

The stunning news came in a terse statement from the Russian penitentiary service a year ago: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in the Arctic Circle penal colony where he was serving a prison sentence.

The Kremlin on Friday dismissed as a "provocation" accusations by Ukraine that a Russian drone had damaged the containment shelter at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant overnight.

A Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in an attack overnight into Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.