Newsweek has contacted Russia's Foreign Ministry for comment by email. Putin's decision to wear a military uniform on Wednesday appears aimed at reinforcing his image as a wartime leader and ...

Voislav Torden, 38, a Russian-Norwegian better known as Yan Petrovskiy, was a deputy leader of a neo-Nazi paramilitary unit called Rusich, during Russia’s first attacks on Ukraine in 2014. Section 7, ...

They will affect 31 individuals and Russian paramilitary groups that support ... It is an organized group of civilians, either in military uniforms or in civilian clothes, used to assist the ...