Top News 2025 Russia. Debris from nearby buildings in kyiv after a russian drone attack on new year's day photographed. Russia plans to boost its defence budget by almost 30 percent next year as it diverts resources to its ukraine offensive, spending more on the military than welfare and education combined, a.

Russia’s central bank has forecast economic growth of 0.5% to 1.5% in 2025, down from 3.5% to 4%in 2024, suggesting that the wartime boom may have run its course. Putin declared 2025 the year of the defender of the fatherland, noting that russia in may marks 80 years since the former soviet union’s victory over nazi germany in world war.