Ukraine crisis

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners in a long-awaited deal that is widely hoped will reduce tensions between the pair.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) boss Christine Lagarde has said that Ukraine's economic reforms are starting to yield results, and the country

Ukraine has cut its interest rate to 27 per cent, a reduction of three percentage points – despite having inflation

I am becoming worryingly convinced that Vladimir Putin must be a big fan of this column. Just a few days

Russian gas company Gazprom announced today that it has stopped all natural gas supplies to Ukraine, after a bid to

The rouble fell 0.4 per cent against the dollar to $0.01848 in the early afternoon after reports suggested ambassadors from

Greece last night played a new card in the tense stand-off with its creditors and turned to Russia for help,

Eight British officials have been named on a Russian list of European politicians and military leaders who have been banned

Prime Minister David Cameron received a rare phone call yesterday when Russian president Vladimir Putin rang Number 10 to congratulate

The Ukraine crisis has hit Russian banks to the tune of somewhere between $4bn and $5bn, credit ratings agency Standard

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Jean-Claude Junker has called for the creation of an EU army, saying it would help the bloc be taken more