Russian President Vladimir Putin extended his rule until at least 2030 in a heavily stage-managed election.

Thousands are protesting Vladimir Putin's rule as he gets set for his fifth term as president following a landslide re-election. ABC News' Lama Hasan reports.

Putin says protests during election had no effect and any crimes will be punished after vote in which he stifled dissent

The United States and allies are warning Iran that major Western economies will pile new sanctions on Tehran if it moves forward with an emerging plan to provide ballistic missiles to Russia for its war with Ukraine

ABC News’ Patrick Reevell spoke with supporters of Alexei Navalny and key opposition figures, as Russia prepares for elections that will likely keep President Vladimir Putin in power for a fifth term.

A Russian state-backed group that Microsoft said hacked into its corporate email accounts was able to gain access to its core software systems, the company said.

A Russian missile exploded in Odessa, hundreds of feet from where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, according to sources and officials.

Oleg Orlov, 70, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. In court, he condemned Alexei Navalny's death.

She said the Russians have figured out how to evade sone U.S. export controls.

ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with Chris Van Heerden about his girlfriend Ksenia Karelina, a dual Russian & U.S. citizen who is detained in Russia for treason after allegedly donating $51 to Ukraine.

Ksenia Karelina, 33, is a dual U.S.-Russian citizen from Los Angeles and an amateur ballerina who has allegedly been accused of treason in Russia.

The former FBI informant accused of making false bribery claims about President Biden and his son Hunter has been released on bond. ABC News’ Perry Russom reports.

The Russian military says its forces have completed their takeover of Avdiivka and are now launching a new offensive in southern Ukraine.

The White House confirmed Russia is developing anti-satellite capability but stressed it couldn't be used to "attack humans" on Earth.

Intelligence that Russia wants to put a nuclear weapon into space raises questions about the country's intentions and the potential ramifications

David Barnes was convicted Tuesday by a Russian judge of abusing his two sons in Texas, but prosecutors in Texas never found cause to charge him there.

Tucker Carlson has recorded an interview with Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin and Carlson.

Oleg Kononenko has spent more than 878 days and 12 hours in space, totaling more than two and half years.

ABC News’ Patrick Reevell details Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks about the Ukraine war in his annual press conference.

Vladimir Putin's comments came during his annual press conference, which happened for the first time since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava allegedly flew to LAX from Copenhagen, Denmark, authorities say.

Alexey Navalny's spokeswoman, Kyra Yarmysh, said his lawyers tried to see Navalny on Monday at the prison but were told he's no longer listed there.

Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter in the newspaper's Moscow bureau, was arrested in March.

When the invasion of Ukraine began, Russian dissident journalist Elena Kostyuchenko was reporting at the time for a Moscow-based opposition newspaper.

Russia appears to be suffering severe losses as its wages a new offensive in eastern Ukraine, focused on the city of Avdiivka.

Russia-China trade climbed to $200 billion in the last year, Putin said.

At least 51 people are dead, including a 6-year-old boy, after a Russian missile strike on a village in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, officials said.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took swipes at former President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin during her portrait unveiling Tuesday.

British officials officially declared the Russia-linked private military company as a terrorist group.

The Justice Department earlier this week charged nine Russian nationals who they say used Russian-based malware in cyberattacks to steal money from U.S. companies.

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried in a private funeral on Tuesday, his press service said.

ABC News spoke to experts about Vladimir Putin's possible strategy.

According to Russian media, Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was in a plane crash north of Moscow.

ABC News contributor Steve Ganyard talks about the deadly crash that Yevgeny Prigozhin, who tried to lead a mutiny against Vladimir Putin last month, may have been on.

Charles McGonigal was charged over his ties to Oleg Deripaska

The 11 Russian and Chinese ships that sailed near Alaska's Aleutian Islands as part of a joint exercise are now moving away from the region, according to two officials

In Kenya, at least five protesters have been injured as police clash with demonstrators calling for the government to lower the cost of living.

"I don't know how he's staying so brave," she said, after more than 100 days.

Ella Milman and her husband Mikhail Gershkovich speak to "Good Morning America" co-anchor George Stephanopoulos in their first broadcast interview since their son's imprisonment.

The U.S. military has released video of a tense encounter over eastern Syria as Russian fighter jets were seen "harassing" three American military drones.

U.S. officials say Russian fighters were caught on tape harassing three U.S. drones over Syria.

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak told ABC News that he believes the chaotic uprising is "the first stage of a huge civil war" in Russia.

Russia's Wagner mercenary group founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said the Kremlin's justifications for invading Ukraine were based on lies.

ABC News’ Katherine Faulders explains more about special counsel Durham’s testimony, accusing both the Department of Justice and the FBI of becoming "political weapons.”

A group of friends in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, opened what they call the first military-meme art bar: Offensive.

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge and ABC News' National defense analyst Mick Mulroy discuss the fallout from the missile strikes on Moscow and on how Russia could respond.

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge has more on Russia’s reaction to Ukraine’s alleged drone attacks near Moscow this week.

ABC News foreign correspondent Tom Soufi Burridge is in Kharkiv, Ukraine, with the latest as Ukrainian forces defend Russia's most recent barrage of Iranian-made drones and missiles.

A series of Russian drones and cruise missiles targeted Kyiv on Monday morning, one day after the largest drone strike on the Ukrainian capital since the start of the war.

Western officials say they assess Russia may lack the reserves to deal with a major Ukrainian breakthrough during the coming counteroffensive.