MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Saturday it would suspend gas exports to Moldova from 0500 GMT on Jan. 1 due to unpaid debt by Moldova, which is bracing for severe power cuts. It said the company reserved the right to take any action,

A manufacturing plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region has significantly scaled up its production of Iranian-designed drones, using a range of Chinese components, and recruiting a low-skilled workforce of Russian teenagers and African women,

White House spokesman John Kirby has said the US has seen "early indications" that Russia may have been responsible for the downing of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on 25 December, killing 38 people.

Moscow has warned Donald Trump against resuming the testing of nuclear weapons when he takes office, saying it would “not rule anything out” in response to US aggression.

Putin’s escalating campaign against immigrants has tapped a well of ethnic hatred.

The State Department says an American schoolteacher arrested in Russia on drug charges more than four years ago has been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained.

The U.S. has intelligence that indicates Russia misidentified an Azerbaijani airliner as a Ukrainian drone and shot it down with an air defense system, according to two military officials.

The future of gas transit through Ukraine is at a turning point. If a last-minute deal isn’t struck by Wednesday, billions of cubic meters in gas flows could come to a halt.

Moscow has also used its own troops to carry out such attacks, which aim to overwhelm Ukrainian positions.

Kyiv hasn’t commented on the FSB’s claim, which comes 10 days after Ukraine assassinated Russia’s chemical weapons chief in Moscow.