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  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    Alexander Baunov
    Russia’s diplomats are now reduced to propagandists

    Once regarded as a sophisticated elite, foreign ministry officials now use extreme language to prove loyalty to the Kremlin

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Crimea explosions focus spotlight on shadow counter-offensive

    Air base incident is the latest involving Russian targets that western analysts suspect had indirect guidance from Kyiv

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s risky double game

    Turkish president’s closer co-operation with Moscow could trigger retaliation from the US

  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    Tracking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps

    A visual guide to the war

  • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
    Turkish politics
    Alarm mounts in western capitals over Turkey’s deepening ties with Russia

    Officials warn of retaliation if Ankara helps Moscow evade sanctions after Erdoğan and Putin agree to increase co-operation

  • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
    Tony Barber
    The thirst for freedom in Belarus is unquenchable

    Two years after pro-democracy protests swept the nation, opponents of the Lukashenko regime can take heart from Polish history

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Putin and Erdoğan vow to deepen economic ties

    Russian and Turkish presidents discuss trade and investment deals in Black Sea meeting

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    ‘Russification’ erodes Ukraine’s sovereignty in occupied Kherson

    Moscow’s control of southern city grows stronger as Kyiv plans military offensive to regain regional capital

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Chess
    Ukrainian grandmaster moves to check Russia’s domination of world chess federation

    Andrii Baryshpolets seeks to harness international sympathy for Kyiv to end Moscow’s longstanding rule of Fide

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    Russian court sentences Brittney Griner to 9 years in prison

    Decision comes despite US efforts to secure prisoner swap for basketball star

  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Gerhard Schröder says Russia wants negotiated end to Ukraine war

    Germany ex-chancellor defends friendship with Vladimir Putin after trip to Moscow

  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    US imposes sanctions on Putin’s reputed girlfriend and other Russian elites

    Treasury department also targets multinational company, yacht and sanctions-evasion operation

  • Monday, 1 August, 2022
    Russia
    Ex-Putin aide Chubais hospitalised in Italy with rare neurological disorder

    Kremlin’s climate envoy quit shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

  • Monday, 1 August, 2022
    ReviewArts
    Another Russia podcast finds a fresh angle on a familiar story — review

    The daughter of murdered politician and Putin critic Boris Nemtsov co-presents this chilling new series

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukrainian strikes hit key supply route in Russia-controlled Kherson region

    US-supplied high-precision rockets damage bridge on Dnipro river, making transport impossible

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    Energy crisis
    European gas price rise accelerates as Russia cuts flows

    Cost has surged 25% this week as Moscow reduces supply through key pipeline

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    Energy crisis
    US warns of surge in fuel costs as it renews push for Russian oil price cap

    Officials are worried impending ban on tanker insurance could force crude production offline

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    Sergei Lavrov on Africa tour to counter accusation Russia is ‘exporting hunger’

    Russian foreign minister to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo after Egypt on Sunday

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russia admits missile strikes on Odesa despite grain export deal with Ukraine

    UN and US condemn breach of agreement intended to avert global food crisis

  • Friday, 22 July, 2022
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan sounds alarm over Russian and Chinese military co-operation

    Tokyo releases defence white paper as it considers changing pacifist constitution

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    EU energy
    Hungary sends foreign minister to Moscow to ask Russia for more gas

    Peter Szijjártó says swiftly decoupling from Russian energy would damage the Hungarian economy

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    ReviewFilm
    We Are Russia — furious film about the lost hope for a new president

    Alexandra Dalsbaek documents the young supporters of Alexei Navalny and how their dreams were snuffed out

  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    EU energy
    Brussels asks EU states to slash gas use by 15% starting next month

    Plan comes as Russia’s Putin warns of reduced supplies to the continent

  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russia signals plan to annex more parts of Ukraine

    Foreign minister says Moscow’s war aims extend beyond eastern Donbas region

  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    White House warns Russia plans to annex parts of southern Ukraine

    Kremlin installing proxy officials and preparing to hold stage-managed referendums, Washington says

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