Trump has argued that the Arctic island is critical for U.S. security given threats posed by Russia as well as China.

Mr Putin praised Russia’s constructive role in Latin America and the Middle East. He made no mention of America’s armed forces having abducted Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, a Russian ally whom he had welcomed in the Kremlin eight months earlier—much less of how easily they had knocked out Venezuela’s Russian-built air defences.

Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula received nearly 7 feet of snow.

By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Sberbank, Russia's biggest bank turned technology conglomerate, has taken a major stake in leading electronics producer Element, as Moscow pushes for sovereignty in the production of the high-tech components needed for the war in Ukraine.

The bid by U.S. President Donald Trump to take over Greenland heralds a “deep crisis” for NATO and raises questions about the alliance's preservation as a single military-political bloc, Russia's top diplomat said Tuesday.

Feet of snow buried the town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, in Russia's Far East, during the middle of last week. Two people were killed by snow falling from rooftops. The Kamchatka Peninsula was also the location of a major earthquake and tsunami last year.

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to donate $1 billion in U.S. dollars from its sovereign assets frozen in the United States to President Donald Trump's Board of Peace and commit an unspecified amount for the restoration of Ukraine.

The United States, Russia and Ukraine rarely agree on anything. But as their delegations head to Abu Dhabi for their first trilateral meeting since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine,