•Russian drone strikes At least six people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local officials say. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Iranian-made Shahed drones had hit several buildings, including apartment blocks, early today. Attacks on Kharkiv, the closest big city to the Russian border, have been intensifyi...
Olympic chiefs announced yesterday that Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in this summer’s Paris Games under a neutral flag will not be able to take part in the opening ceremony. Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) from either country “will not participate in the parade of delegations and teams during the opening ceremony since they are...
•Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin has secured another six-year term as Russian president, exit polls showed yesterday, paving the way for the hardline former spy to become the longest-serving Russian leader in more than 200 years. Victory for the 71-year-old was never in doubt, with all his major opponents dead, in prison or exiled, and authoriti...
•Russia election Vladimir Putin is set to secure another six-year term as Russian leader this weekend in a vote the Kremlin says will show society is fully behind his assault on Ukraine. In power as president or prime minister since the final day of 1999, Putin has quashed all forms of opposition and dissent, exerting […]
•Photographs showing late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said today. Lyudmila Navalnaya has travelled to the remote IK-3 prison where her son […]
•Candles and a photo of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny A host of European Union governments Monday summoned Russian diplomats following the prison death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Germany, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands were among those saying yesterday they have had summoned diplomats from Russia...
•Late Alexei Navalny Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died today in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year term, Russia’s federal penitentiary service said. Western governments immediately attacked the Kremlin over the death of the most outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, reports AFP. Navalny lost consciousne...