Russia and Iran are advancing a $25 billion nuclear power program that would add several Russian-supported reactors to Iran’s electrical grid.

President Donald Trump’s central intelligence chief traveled to Moscow this week with a warning to Russia not to stage an attack in NATO territory, among other issues, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Flight-tracking data showed the U.S. military plane taking off from Riga and arriving at Vnukovo airport in Russia.

That attack heralded the start of Ukraine's aerial campaign that has delivered repeated blows to Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries. The company’s size and commercial importance have brought comparisons with Amazon.

Russia ‌hammered Ukrainian ports, industrial sites and retailers' distribution facilities with missiles and drones in an hours-long attack on Kyiv and other cities that was partly repelled, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.

The CIA director’s trip was not officially announced, raising widespread speculation over why he flew to Moscow.

Russia is the largest destination for stolen Canadian cars. Smugglers are meeting the demand of a booming black market.

By Elena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank will continue cutting its key rate, lowering it to 13.5% from 14% by the end of this year, Sberbank's chief economist Alexander Isakov told Reuters,

At the same time, Russia has endured two waves of severe fuel shortages across the country as a result of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries. In total, Russia has hit at least 246 filling stations across Ukraine so far, says Oleksandr Sirenko, an analyst with Ukrainian energy think-tank Nafto Rynok ("Oil Market").

The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed U.S. media reports that Russia could attack a NATO member state and that the purpose of CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow this week had been to warn Moscow against such a move.

The risks of miscalculation and escalation are rising as Moscow wages a fierce hybrid war involving sabotage and cyberattacks against Western allies.