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We must not forget the courage of Anna Politkovskaya

08.10.09
We are all concerned about freedom of speech and of the press. We journalists fret that libel suits are curtailing our ability to expose corruption and wrongdoing... more

Obama presses ‘reset’ — but can Russia change?

02.09.09
Prime Minister Putin has issued tentative criticism of the Stalinist past but Obama now needs a fresh start... more

Poland demands Putin apology for Russia's 1939 'stab in back'

01.09.09
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We sabotaged Russian power plant, say rebels

21.08.09
Chechen rebels claimed they sabotaged Russia's largest hydro-electric power plant, where an explosion is feared to have killed more than 70 workers... more

Vladimir Putin strips off again

05.08.09
Vladimir Putin has once again posed for a series of holiday photographs that underline his macho credentials... more

Questions raised by the Camberwell fire

07.07.09
The Camberwell tower block fire, which took such a terrible toll in human life, has raised some serious questions, not just about how the fire services dealt with the blaze but about the chance of another tragedy elsewhere... more

Obama predicts ‘extraordinary progress’ at Moscow arms summit

06.07.09
Barack Obama told Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that the two countries could make “extraordinary progress” on the many issues they have in common after he arrived in Moscow for arms talks... more

Past Future Perfect is woolly thinking at its best

14.05.09
A new gallery dedicated to Eastern European contemporary art is showcasing five Russian artists.... more

Smoking ban from Emir Kusturica Orchestra

11.05.09
Emir Kusturica's audience was asked to clap hands, yell obscenities and watch the guitarist spin his illuminated instrument on his groin. ... more

White Russia

10.05.09
As oligarchs and the government pour money into creating the country's own Courchevel, Felix Milns finds out if this resort is 2014 Winter Olympics material... more

Miliband: Russia's president is more liberal than Putin

02.03.09
David Miliband has seized on reports that Russian president Dmitri Medvedev may be pushing for a more liberal agenda than Vladimir Putin... more

Football talk

12.02.09
Football: How a broken fax machine almost scuppered Arsenal's Arshavin deal ... more

Europe’s energy crisis deepens as Russia cuts off gas

06.01.09
Energy: Europe was plunged in to an energy crisis after Russian gas imports were cut by up to 75% and political tensions sent the oil price soaring back above $50 a barrel... more

Cartel move sparks fears of a surge in natural gas prices

24.12.08
Energy: Fears were growing that the price of natural gas could rise sharply after the world's biggest suppliers agreed a charter which could see them form a cartel as powerful as the oil exporters' Opec... more

Putin ‘threatened to hang Georgia leader’

14.11.08
Nicolas Sarkozy is reported to have saved the Georgia's president from being "hanged by the balls" by an angry Vladimir Putin... more

Russia 'ready to annex Georgia's rebel regions'

29.08.08
America and Russia were locked in a fresh war of words as it emerged that the Kremlin is plotting to "absorb" breakaway regions in the Caucasus into its territory... more

The return of Putin and humiliation for the West

12.08.08
As Russian forces push further into Georgia, the Kremlin hawks see the invasion as payback time for George Bush and Nato. But a military triumph will leave Moscow the loser in the long run... more

Stand up to Putin, say Tories

12.08.08
David Cameron has compared Vladimir Putin's war in Georgia to Nazi invasions of the Thirties as he called for international retaliation against Russia... more

Russia defies US and keeps up the bombing

11.08.08
New military clashes broke out between Russia and Georgia as Vladimir Putin rejected calls for a ceasefire amid a deepening crisis... more

Comment: Kremlin is exploiting uncertainty in the West

11.08.08
Georgia's bloody battle with Russia was a tragic blunder by an inexperienced leadership in Tbilisi: but none the less for that, a stark warning to Russia's neighbours and the West... more

Solzhenitsyn, tortured poet of Stalin's Gulag

04.08.08
Russia is in mourning today following the death of Nobel prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who helped to free the Russian people from Soviet tyranny ... more

Of inflation hawks and bolting horses

30.07.08
There may be a three-way split at the Bank of England over what to do with interest rates, with some arguing for a cut, others a rise, and the rest no change at all. ... more

Business must beware Russian control freaks

30.06.08
Vladimir Putin is no slouch. So when he says that he advised BP and its Russian billionaire partners not to set up a 50-50 joint venture, you have to think he is on to something... more

Russia's dark secrets

22.05.08
Rebellion has its flaws, but the story of Alexander Litvineko may just be the most frightening thing you'll see at the cinema this year.... more

Russians' ring of steel and a snub from Putin

21.05.08
A ring of steel was thrown up around Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium ahead of the Champions League final... more

Hopes rise of a thaw in relations between BP and Russia

09.05.08
Russian President Medvedev has promised western firms that his Russia will be a good place to do business in.... more

Winners and losers in new era for Russia

31.03.08
Wealthy Russian oligarchs left counting the cost of Russian election result... more

The dead billionaire and the 'KGB poison killer'

14.02.08
What killed Badri Patarkatsishvili? As the police scour his home for clues and a pathologist conducts a post-mortem examination, conspiracy theorists will point to the company he kept on the day he died.... more

Billionaire a key backer of the Rose Revolution

13.02.08
Until its "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Georgia was seen as another satellite of Moscow's influence... more

Tycoons bringing explosive politics to London

13.02.08
Badri Patarkatsishvili is just one of a string of former Soviet Union exiles who have made London their home and refuge... more

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