God save the Czar!" declared in a Telegram post by ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin in his congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin who turned 72 last week.

Perhaps it’s something about Russia, but like Peter Morgan’s Patriots, which visited Broadway last spring, Erika Sheffer’s new play Vladimir has a bitter irony implanted in its title.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his interior ministry early on Sunday to increase efforts in suppressing extremism inside the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a ...

Up next at Manhattan Theatre Club is the world premiere of Vladimir, written by Erika Sheffer and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan. The cast of Vladimir features two-time Tony Award ...

A new book by legendary journalist Bob Woodward describes how Russian president Vladimir Putin has outfoxed three US presidents. AP During a private fundraising event in New York in October ...

A former Russian gulag inmate has made the stark prediction that President Vladimir Putin's regime is poised for a sudden ...

Vladmir Putin will be hoping to make a big impression on the world stage this week and counter his status as an international pariah in the West by hosting the Brics summit of emerging economies ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, hailing the "very close" relationship between Russia and Iran. The meeting comes as Iran braces for an ...

By Laura Collins-Hughes For Raya Bobrinskaya, a hard-nosed newspaper journalist in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, being poisoned is a hazard of the job. She almost expects it to happen to her at some ...

Vladimir Putin is the current president of Russia, holding the position since 2012 and previously serving the position between 2000 until 2008. Additionally, he has served as the Prime Minister of ...

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