Vladimir Putin has weighed into the row over Macedonia’s name change, accusing the US and its allies of destabilising the Balkans by “asserting their dominant role” in the region. The Russian president criticised what he described as deliberate effo...
It has been a year in which the GRU’s operations, from election hacking to novichok poisoning, have been uncovered and plastered on the front pages of western newspapers more often than the secretive military intelligence agency, or its Kremlin boss...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is one of a crop of present-day political leaders who value the respectability an ostensibly democratic election confers but don’t want to risk actually losing the vote. In this respect, Turkey’s president is no different from R...
It was Jim Mattis who saved the day. The US defence secretary, Pentagon chief and retired Marine general has a reputation for toughness. His former nickname was “Mad Dog”. When push came to shove over Syria last week, it was Mattis – not the state d...
It was Jim Mattis who saved the day. The US defence secretary, Pentagon chief and retired Marine general has a reputation for toughness. His former nickname was “Mad Dog”. When push came to shove over Syria last week, it was Mattis – not the state d...
Theresa May is facing a furious backlash from MPs after she ordered UK forces to join the US and France in targeted airstrikes on Syrian chemical weapons facilities – without having gained the consent of parliament. Hours after four RAF Tornado GR4...
Theresa May is facing a furious backlash from MPs after she ordered UK forces to join the US and France in targeted airstrikes on Syrian chemical weapons facilities – without having gained the consent of parliament. Hours after four RAF Tornado GR4...
President Donald Trump says 'getting along with Russia is a good thing', while conceding that 'maybe we won't'. The United States recently said it would expel 60 Russian diplomats, joining governments across Europe in punishing the Kremlin for a ner...
Donald Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to Washington, the White House and the Kremlin both confirmed on Monday. The Kremlin said no preparations had been made by the time the US expelled 60 Russian diplomats last week. The White House spokeswoman,...
Several Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have accused the country’s opposition of trying to take advantage of a blaze at a shopping centre that killed dozens of people, most of them children. The remarks came after thousands of people...
The expulsions of Russian diplomats on Monday reflect how widely Vladimir Putin has attempted to wage his brand of hybrid warfare and how many leaders and their intelligence agencies he has angered in the process. Even before the Salisbury poisoning...
The Kremlin has denied a claim that the poisoned former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal wrote to Vladimir Putin asking to be pardoned and to be allowed to visit his home country. The former Russian intelligence officer, who came to Britain in 20...
The US president, Donald Trump, has said he called to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory in Sunday’s elections, breaking a taboo among western leaders in appearing to endorse the Russian leader’s re-election to a fourth term in pow...
Various clips appear to show ballot box rigging during the presidential election. People can be seen on CCTV stuffing multiple voting slips into ballot boxes throughout Russia. Vladimir Putin won more than 75% of the vote to begin his fourth term as...
That Vladimir Putin will be reelected has never been in doubt. What the Russian president’s fourth term, sometimes referred to as Putin 4.0, is likely to bring is a more open question. The past six years have brought Russia into deepening conflict w...