Why China and India are sending troops to Russia
Six months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is hosting joint military exercises with several countries, including China and India.
ByVladimir Putin is the president of Russia and has been the country’s leader, with an interlude as prime minister, for more than 22 years. Putin was born in 1952, studied law at Leningrad State University and served for 15 years as a KGB officer before becoming a politician in 1991.
Six months into its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is hosting joint military exercises with several countries, including China and India.
ByIn Russia and America we are about to see what happens when right-wing nihilism hits the buffers of reality.
ByThe conflict appears to be entering a new phase, with both sides digging in for a long war of attrition.
ByKyiv’s counterattack in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson could push the war into a much more dynamic phase.
ByThe Russian president wants his country to be feared and respected, but the failures of his military are increasingly clear.
BySix months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, enthusiasm for the economic war on Putin is hard to find.
ByIf there's one thing we know for sure, it's that it will cause future violence.
ByMoscow’s accusation that the suspect fled to Estonia is just its latest “provocation”, the country’s foreign minister said.
ByThe philosopher and ally of Vladimir Putin is thought to have been the intended target for the car bomb.
ByThe Russian economist Sergei Guriev encourages inflation-hit Western economies to hold their nerve against Putin.
ByOvsyannikova is one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians standing up to Vladimir Putin despite immense personal risk.
BySix months into the Ukraine war, the shock that temporarily banished pro-Russian views from European politics is wearing off.
ByThe war in Ukraine has become one of attrition – it’s Vladimir Putin’s only alternative to acknowledging defeat.
ByThere is a Russia that is not Putin. The West should seek to build bridges with these Russians, not cut…
ByPublic ownership is the only sensible response to surging energy prices, insecure supply and climate crisis.
ByLeonid Volkov on how the war in Ukraine has given Russia’s opposition a new chance to shape the country’s future.
ByPoor policies, once adopted, are difficult to abandon, as the leaders of Russia and China are demonstrating.
ByA dispute over car number plates between Serbia and Kosovo has been defused but not resolved.
ByRussian authoritarianism has added an extra dimension to its suppression of free speech: a sinister playfulness with fact and opinion.
ByMoscow is exploiting the only significant leverage it has over European economies: energy.
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