Once a global leader in cryptocurrency mining, China banned the activity in 2021, citing financial and environmental concerns. Russia is also becoming increasingly dependent on its neighbor at a time when its war-time economy is being choked by sanctions, with no end in sight.

"A nuclear arms race benefits no one," Hruby, whose agency builds and stores America's nuclear weapons, said Thursday at the Hudson Institute think tank.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

Russian elites are growing increasingly concerned about the dominance of a pro-China clan within the Kremlin and Beijing's "colonial" attitude towards Moscow.

MOSCOW. Jan 28 (Interfax) - The Chinese automobile exporter Biulu (Chongqing Biulu Automotive Technology Co., Ltd) has opened a consignment warehouse in Belarus for storing Chinese, European and other vehicles for subsequent deliveries to Russia and CIS countries, the company's press service said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday that Moscow and Beijing's foreign policy ties played a stabilising role in international affairs.

Russia's exit from Syria will disrupt supplies to its forces in Africa. But as Moscow's fortunes in the resource-rich Continent wane, Beijing's are rising

Dialogue and negotiation is the “only viable way” to end the war in Ukraine, China told newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has had a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, emphasizing the two countries’ close ties, a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th U.S. president.

Torklink Controls, a partner of the Chinese company Flowinn, will launch the assembly of electric actuators for pipeline valves at the Yesipovo industrial park in Solnechnogorsk in the Moscow region,

Chinese state-sponsored groups including Mustang Panda and Tonto Team have been targeting Russian aerospace and defense firms looking for intelligence on Moscow's military capabilities, researchers at the Taiwanese cybersecurity firm TeamT5 told POLITICO.

The U.S. “will have to out-think” Russia and China to prevent them from using nuclear weapons to resolve a future crisis, the outgoing head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said last week.

Moscow wants India to join a coalition alongside its old adversaries, plus Iran – but New Delhi doesn’t seem all that keen.