Trump says meeting with Putin being planned as fight over Arctic set to begin - Trump calls Ukraine war ‘bloody mess’ as he refuses to rule out military action to gain control over Greenland

The incoming U.S. administration admits that its stunning polar gambit is about warding off Russian ambitions.

The trio are applauded in court as they are sentenced for their role in assisting Alexei Navalny - after a prosecution which rights groups say crosses a new threshold in the repression of dissent under Putin.

Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years.

Donald Trump has refused to rule out using military force to seize the world's largest island, and the Kremlin's concern is no surprise, given the Arctic's growing economic and geopolitical significance to Moscow.

Vladimir Putin is determined to further enlarge Russia, and he sees Donald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland or take it by other means as a way to whitewash Putin’s attempted conquest of Ukraine, as well as his potential future endeavors.

Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko said Russia can't help but be "concerned" over President-elect Donald Trump's "unclear approaches".

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to allocate 100 billion rubles for the implementation of master plans for cities in the Far East and the Arctic. The head of state stated this at the plenary session of the ninth Eastern Economic Forum ...

Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion enters its fourth ... Russia will try to create a 'buffer zone' stretching from the Arctic to the Mediterranean Sea. The Rossiya Special Flight Squadron ...

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LONDON (Reuters) -Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony.