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  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US aid package needed within a month, says Zelenskyy

    Ukrainian president tells key ally that long-awaited $60bn military funding essential to support troops on battlefield

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during ‘Ukraine. Year 2024’ conference
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    News in-depthRussian politics
    Western governments urged to swap spies for Russia’s political prisoners

    Jailed opposition activists fear they will be killed by Vladimir Putin’s regime

    Vladimir Putin and Alexei Navalny
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Sergei Guriev
    Navalny’s courageous example will damage Putin’s home front

    The late activist’s belief that Russia can be peaceful and democratic remains an inspiration

    Police officers detain a woman with a placard reading “Murderers” during a gathering in memory of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Danone SA
    Danone plans to sell Russian operations to Chechnya-linked businessman

    Move comes seven months after Putin ordered seizure of French food group’s local operations

    Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov and Danone strawberry yoghurt
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Alexei Navalny
    Navalny’s mother appeals to Putin for release of her son’s body

    Lyudmila Navalnaya travelled to Arctic prison colony to plead with authorities for opposition leader’s remains

    Lyudmila Navalnaya and Alexei Tsvetkov, a lawyer of Alexei Navalny
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Russian politics
    Russia arrests US-Russian citizen on treason charges

    FSB said woman, identified by lawyers’ collective as Ksenia Khavana, organised fundraisers for Ukrainian group

    FSB headquarters in Moscow
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    News in-depthAlexei Navalny
    Navalny’s widow takes on the struggle against Putin

    After two decades of shunning the limelight, Yulia Navalnaya becomes face of her late husband’s activist movement

    Yulia Navalnaya
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    The strange loyalty of Putin’s global fan club

    Admirers of the Russian leader may soon lead the world’s three largest democracies

    James Ferguson illustration of world leaders on a towpath surrounded by green pastures, Putin with missile pipe, Trump, Xi, Modi and Prabowa dancing behind.
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    News in-depthGazprom OAO
    Gazprom grapples with collapse in sales to Europe

    Business model in tatters after biggest customer slashes Russian gas imports in wake of Ukraine war

    Montage of Vladimir Putin and Alexey Miller and Gazprom logo
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Alexander Gabuev
    Nato has no choice but to strengthen its bulwarks against Putin

    An ageing Russian ruler surrounded by sycophants may embark on even more reckless moves in coming years

    Vladimir Putin visits a military plant of Uralvagonzavod research and production corporation in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, Russia, this month
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Russian politics
    Navalny’s allies accuse Russian authorities of trying to cover up his death

    Police arrest hundreds of people at spontaneous memorial gatherings for opposition activist who died on Friday

    A woman lays flowers at a makeshift shrine to Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St Petersburg
  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    News in-depthAlexei Navalny
    Russians risk arrest to mourn Navalny with vigils and flowers

    Thousands of protesters in other countries flock to anti-Putin demonstrations

    People lay flowers for Alexei Navalny on the Solovetsky Stone in front of the FSB offices in Moscow
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Russia
    Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic prison

    Western leaders condemn Vladimir Putin after death of his most prominent opponent

    Alexei Navalny behind bars in January last year
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Alexander Baunov
    Navalny’s death is a watershed for modern Russia

    Since he first fell foul of the authorities, the country has been transformed into a dictatorship of terror

    Alexei Navalny, pictured with his wife Yulia
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    News in-depthAlexei Navalny
    After Navalny: ‘They will arrest the activists . . .  then everything will die out’

    Opposition figure’s death leaves Russia’s Putin with ‘absolute’ power

    Candles surround photographs during a vigil for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, outside the Russian Embassy in Riga, Latvia
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Ivan Krastev
    Is Ukraine’s future West German?

    Nato membership will be essential to any negotiated end to the war with Russia

    Vladimir Putin during his interview with Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Putin says he prefers Biden over Trump in US election

    Comments come after US president urges Congress to back aid for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia

    Vladimir Putin
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Nato
    US allies condemn Trump’s ‘dangerous’ remarks on Russia

    EU foreign policy chief and German chancellor denounce threats against Nato from Republican frontrunner

    Donald Trump campaigning in South Carolina
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    How Tucker Carlson became Putin’s useful idiot

    The American TV host and the Russian leader have enemies in common

    President Vladimir Putin is interviewed by US journalist Tucker Carlson in the Kremlin
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Russian politics
    Putin hints at swapping US reporter Gershkovich for Russian assassin

    Wall Street Journal journalist has been held in Moscow for almost one year

    Evan Gershkovich in a Moscow court
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Geopolitics
    Xi and Putin reject US ‘interference’ and pledge industrial co-operation

    Chinese and Russian leaders discuss Taiwan and Ukraine in conversation that underscores determination to counter US

    Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Russian politics
    Russia bars anti-war candidate from running against Putin

    Opposition leader Boris Nadezhdin says he will appeal against decision at Moscow’s Supreme Court

    Boris Nadezhdin speaks to journalists after a meeting at the Central Election Commission in Moscow
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Visual investigation
    Russia’s sham rebuild of one Ukrainian city

    Residents of Mariupol live in half-built homes while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions

    A composite image showing a map of Mariupol, a damaged apartment block in the city and a Russian tank
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Russian politics
    Russia moves to ban presidential candidate from running against Putin

    Boris Nadezhdin’s long-shot bid has garnered more supporters than expected ahead of elections in March

    Boris Nadezhdin talks to the media as he is surrounded by supporters
  • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
    News in-depthRussia
    Burst pipes and freezing flats plague Putin’s Russia

    Failing Soviet utilities are in dire need of investment but the Kremlin is focused on defence spending

    A man carrying a child over a river of boiling water from a bust pipe
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