Dmitry Zhirnov, left, Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan, meeting with Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghanistan's Foreign Minister in Kabul in April, 2025 [Handout/Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs via ...

In a move that marks both a dramatic reversal of history and a striking geopolitical realignment, Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan, ...

FILE - Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (left) stands alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a regional conference in Moscow. Russia recently became the first country to ...

On March 31, Russia’s Supreme Court announced that it had received a petition from Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov seeking to lift the ban on the Taliban. The Supreme Court stated that it would hold a ...

Soviet authorities themselves condemned the USSR's bloody occupation of Afghanistan, but 30 years later some in Vladimir Putin's Russia are coming to see the operation in a more positive light. After ...

Russia Afghanistan In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, front left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, ...

(CNN) — Russia has become the first nation to recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan since it took power in 2021, announcing on Thursday it has accepted an ambassador from the Islamist group.

In a dramatic shift with far-reaching geopolitical implications, Russia has become the first major world power to formally recognize the Taliban regime — a move that could accelerate the group’s ...

MOSCOW, April 17 (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow ...

Russia’s recognition of the Taliban provides much sought-after legitimacy to a regime that is enforcing the world’s most extreme version of gender apartheid. In 1979, Russia, as the Soviet Union, ...