Vladimir Putin's growing fear of assassination is said to have grown so extreme Kremlin officials believe the Russian president is now drawing his latest paranoid fears from the Richard Gere spy thriller The Double – the 2011 film featuring a Soviet assassin who murders targets using a wristwatch fitted with a hidden garrote wire.

Russian spy has detailed the stomach-churning way he narrowly managed to escape President Vladimir Putin’s death squad — by hiding inside a dead cow’s carcass.

Increasingly, Norwegian Joint Headquarters in Reitan, a 30-minute drive from the Arctic town of Bodø, is also spearheading NATO’s intensifying efforts to track the submarines of Russia’s Northern Fleet.

For years, Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine has used the Soviet victory over Germany in 1945, and its commemoration on May 9, as a symbol of Russia's power and righteousness a

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone attack deep inside Russia struck a residential building, killing a woman and a child, Russian officials said Wednesday.

College students across Russia are being lured to join the country’s drone forces in Ukraine but rights activists say the offer could be a trap.

The Kremlin on Friday denied that President Vladimir Putin was insulated from bad news after a celebrity ​blogger accused unidentified top officials of not telling ‌Russia's paramount leader the truth about the country's problems.