Vladimir Putin is feeling the sting of President Trump’s new oil sanctions — so much so that he dispatched one of his top henchmen on a desperate charm offensive across the US

Vladimir Putin tightens grip on power by promoting family members and younger allies to his inner circle as economic strain and opposition threats mount in Russia.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia offered top quality energy at a good price and so its partners would decide for themselves whether or not to buy Russian energy after the United States slapped sanctions on Russia's top oil companies.

The Kremlin may have convinced itself that US President Donald Trump didn’t have the stomach to apply real pressure on Moscow to end the brutal conflict in Ukraine.

The remarks came after Washington imposed new sanctions on Russia’s top oil producers, Rosneft and Lukoil, in an attempt to pressure Moscow into agreeing to a ceasefire in Ukraine, where peace talks have stalled.

President Donald Trump's unexpected pivot on the Russia-Ukraine War seems to have created headaches for the Kremlin.

Russian armed forces will respond forcefully in the event of strikes deep inside Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in remarks published on Sunday.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russian oil major Lukoil said it would sell its foreign assets in a press release yesterday after it was hit with US oil sanctions. So far, the new USoil sanctions look like the strongest yet – a lot stronger than the Biden administration “toughest oil sanctions ever” released in January this year.

The Kremlin sits on Borovitsky Hill, rising above the Moscow River in the center of the city. Its first white-stone walls and towers went up in 1367-68, and a rebuild little more than a century later employed skilled artists and architects from across Europe to shape the site into roughly its modern form and appearance.