Falling inflation has persuaded the central bank in Moscow to continue relaxing the country’s record borrowing costs.

Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina and her deputy Alexei Zabotkin addressed a news conference on Friday after the central bank cut its key rate to 18% from 20%.

Friday marked the second-straight time the Bank of Russia cut its interest rate after it lowered borrowing costs in early June.

Almost 50 people including children are feared dead after a Soviet-era passenger plane crashed in Russia’s far eastern Amur region, state media reported on Thursday, citing local officials.

A passenger plane crashed Thursday in Russia's Far East, killing all 48 passengers and crew on board, officials said. The Angara Airlines flight disappeared from radar, and searchers later found the burning wreckage of the plane on a hillside south of its planned destination in Tynda,

An passenger plane crashed in Russia's far east and initial information suggested that everyone on board was killed, Russian emergency services officials said.

President Donald Trump is rehashing longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term. The Republican president lashed out Tuesday following a report from his

In a surprise appearance at a White House briefing DNI Tulsi Gabbard accuses former President Barack Obama, without evidence, of plotting a 'years-long' coup against Donald Trump. Gabbard made the

Russia has promised that no 18-year-olds will be sent to fight in Ukraine, but the BBC finds many have already been killed.

"If we try to establish a ceasefire without building up our future defenses, the war will drag on for many more years," former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said.

Ukraine's forces are holding back Russia's concerted summer push to break through defenses along parts of the front line, says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.