The Biden administration last month announced sanctions on 35 companies and vessels over their involvement in Iran's shadow fleet

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues seeking to expand his challenge of the West's order — this time in tech. The Russian leader has ordered his government and Russian banking giant Sberbank to work with China on artificial intelligence,

"We have reason to believe that China engaged Russia and said: 'Don't go there,'" outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Financial Times on Jan. 3.

The U.S. secretary of state told the Financial Times that pressure from Beijing dissuaded Vladimir Putin from using nuclear weapons.

President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian government and the country’s biggest bank, Sberbank, to build cooperation with China in AI, to limit Western dominance. The instructions were made public on Wednesday through the Kremlin’s website,

The Russian president hobnobbed with world leaders and received a plethora of gifts, including a pair of hunting dogs.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences to Chinese President Xi Jinping over the human casualties caused by the earthquake in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. This is reported by the Kremlin website.

President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's government and the country's biggest bank, Sberbank , to build cooperation with China in artificial intelligence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to Chinese leader Xi Jinping following a devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Tibet that resulted in at least 95 fatalities. The quake affected the northern Himalayas and was felt in neighboring Nepal,

China and Russia strengthen ties as Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin express mutual trust and strategic coordination, promoting non-alliance and non-confrontation principles targeting no third party.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sberbank's CEO German Gref attend AI Journey, an international conference on artificial intelligence technology, in Moscow, Russia, on December 11, 2024. Photo: VCG Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government and Sberbank,

Western sanctions intended to restrict Moscow’s access to the technologies it needs to sustain its war against Ukraine have resulted in the world’s major producers of microchips halting exports to Russia,