VLADIMIR PUTIN

Tehran fears a loss of regional influence if Russia’s recent military pullback leads to the removal of Syria’s Bashar Assad, observers say.

Ahead of next week's meeting between Western and Russian military leaders, the Kremlin is showing little appetite for improved relations.

“Eve Online” is unlike any other video game. It has no storyline, missions or bad guys, yet it attracts hundreds of thousands of players.

Seven highlights from the Russian president’s annual, and highly stage-managed, question-and-answer session.

The Russian president was answering questions from Russian citizens — about 2.5 million questions were submitted — during an annual call-in show Thursday.

Russian authorities insisted the maneuvers were routine.

NATO has said it will not return to business as usual until Russia respects international law.

But despite revelations about the offshore account in leaked documents, David Cameron is adamant he’s done nothing wrong.

European Union officials want to draw up a list of “noncooperative jurisdictions­” after the recent data leak that linked prominent officials to offshore accounts.

Russia’s fraying relations with Egypt and Turkey have hit the two countries’ important tourism sectors.

Its recession is likely to be more severe than was originally predicted, according to the World Bank, thanks to plummeting oil prices and sanctions.

Russia has more than 19 million people living in poverty as low oil prices are expected to keep battering its recessionary economy.

In an apparent case of art imitating life, Ramón Fonseca’s novel explores such themes as illicit “enrichment.”

Russia has continued to build its arsenal despite an agreement with the U.S. to reduce stockpiles by 2018.

Mossack Fonseca, the Panama law firm at the center of the exposé, called itself a victim of an anti-privacy campaign.

Multiple federal agencies are looking at the huge trove of data with an eye toward criminal and civil investigations.

HSBC, Credit Suisse and UBS all appear among the top 10 banks that set up shell companies through the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

The documents released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Sunday allegedly show close associates of Vladimir Putin channeled $2 billion through a series of shell companies.

The documents leaked from a Panama-based law firm allegedly show that some companies were being used for money laundering, arms and drug deals and tax evasion.

Officials and state-owned media were silent Monday on the money-laundering allegations against President Vladimir Putin and others contained in the Panama Papers.

Millions of documents leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca show schemes regarding tax shelters linked to Vladimir Putin and other world leaders.