(ANSA) - ROME, 14 OTT - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday United States President Donald Trump's deal on Russian diesel is risky and legitimizes Moscow. "The deal on Russian diesel announced last Friday by US President Donald Trump is a move I consider very risky.

The Trump administration has proposed unfreezing some Russian government assets frozen after Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine in an effort to revive stalled peace negotiations, but European officials rejected the proposal, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

The Tula regional government has decided to evict residents from local temporary accommodation centers. Since 2022, the centers have housed refugees from Ukraine and Russia’s border communities. Many are single mothers with children,

Government planes reported to be carrying the Russian president and his aides home from Turkmenistan were forced to circle or divert to another city.

Trump says the U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of U.S. pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms.

Russians head to the polls from Friday to Sunday to elect members of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, in the first parliamentary election to be held since the country launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The vote ...

Russian authorities have sought to allay global worries over the death of a young woman who worked at a Siberian anti-plague laboratory. But moves to isolate her contacts and introduce new disease-control measures at local hospitals have raised concerns among people who fear they’re not being told the full story.

Overnight on Oct. 13, Russian forces launched five ballistic missiles, 108 Shahed-type attack drones, including 74 jet-powered versions, as well as Gerbera and Parodiya decoy drones, and nine