
Steve Rosenberg: the last man in Moscow
The BBC reporter talks courting Putin, playing piano with Gorbachev, and the rising tensions of a nation at war.
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The BBC reporter talks courting Putin, playing piano with Gorbachev, and the rising tensions of a nation at war.
ByFears are rising that the Russian president will use the annual Victory Day holiday to escalate his offensive in Ukraine,…
ByEven Vladimir Putin will suffer from its closure, because he will no longer know what the opposition is talking about.
ByThe Moscow-based correspondent on his decision to depart the country amid war, media clampdown and rumours of martial law.
ByPopular dissatisfaction is unlikely to cause the Russian president to change course.
ByDespite aggressive rhetoric the internationalist Soviet past — visible in statues and Metro stations — still holds clout.
ByThe Russian authorities and the wider public are in denial about the severity of the pandemic.
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