July 4 (UPI) -- Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan amid a chaotic U.S. withdrawal and toppled the Western-backed government in 2021.

Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to ...

Russia, the world's largest wheat exporter, cut the wheat export tax to zero, effective from July 9, the Interfax news agency ...

Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan, sparking outrage from ...

Russia's federal budget received 132 billion rubles from property sales.

A network of Kremlin-backed influencers seeks to portray Russia as a bastion of traditional values in an attempt to attract ...

Rosstat, Russia's statistics agency, has not released data on deaths this year, according to an independent Russian outlet.

A former senior Taliban official told CBS News that while the move was welcome, "Russia and China can't financially support ...

Dylan Earl said he needed a “fresh start” in life. Unsatisfied by his prospects in his dreary English town, he decided to ...

Court proceedings revealed how a criminal gang in Britain was directed to target Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a dissident Russian who ...

Russia is the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan since the group seized power in 2021, ...