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Austria's Kinderhotels are perfect for kids

25.09.09
How do you turn a family of urban couch potatoes into hiking, yodelling, muesli-eating von Trapps? Anne McElvoy packs her knapsack and heads to Austria’s Kinderhotel to find out... more

Suicide bomber kills 20 in rebel Russian region

17.08.09
Suicide bomber exploded a truck at a police station today in Russia's North Caucasus, killing at least 20 and wounding 60... more

WORLD: I’ll lead probe into dissident murder. says Chechen president

16.07.09
Chechnya’s leader says he will personally oversee the investigation into the murder of a human rights activist — even though the victim’s colleagues accuse his security forces of being involved... more

Judge shot dead outside school

10.06.09
A senior judge in Russia's North Caucasus was killed by gunmen as she dropped her children off at school... 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

New twist as tycoon loses $6bn oil firm to Russian in Osborne donor row

22.10.08
A tycoon who clashed with Lord Mandelson's billionaire friend Oleg Deripaska has sought sanctuary in Britain... 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

Russia abandons truce and goes back into Georgia

14.08.08
Explosions were heard in the strategic Georgian city of Gori today as the Russian pull-out from the area appeared to collapse... more

Comment: Russia wins the peace in Georgia

13.08.08
The war in the Caucasus is, at least for now, at an end, even if reports persist of sporadic fighting... 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

Oil price dives after Russia’s ‘ceasefire’ in Georgia conflict

12.08.08
Price of oil fell and Russian currency soared after Moscow claimed to have ordered a halt to Georgia action... more

Comment: This aggression cancels 'business as usual'

12.08.08
The events of the last few days in Georgia have been shocking and disturbing. Hundreds have lost their lives and many more have been injured or forced to flee their homes... 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

The beginning of the end

11.08.06
He saw himself as a traditionalist, but Oskar Kokoschka's great triptych of 1950, on show at the Courtauld, sounded the death knell for figurative painting, says Brian Sewell.... more

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