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Belarus opposition leader handed 15-year jail term for 'treason'
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was handed a 15-year jail term on Monday after being convicted in absentia for treason and "conspiracy to seize power", a verdict she said was punishment for her efforts to promote democracy. → Read More
Nobel winner Bialiatski jailed in Belarus for a decade, sparking outcry
Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a ruling condemned by Germany as a "farce". → Read More
Russian mercenary boss escalates row with top army brass with image of dead bodies
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin took a bitter public feud with the top army brass to a new level on Wednesday, publishing a grisly image of dozens of his fighters he said had been killed after being deprived of ammunition. → Read More
Russia's 'General Armageddon' under pressure to deliver on battlefield after retreat
Russia's leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow's forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in favour of the move is now under growing pressure to prove it was worth it. → Read More
Analysis: Truth or bluff? Why Putin's nuclear warnings have the West worried
President Vladimir Putin's latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a troubling question much more urgent: Is the former KGB spy bluffing? → Read More
What are Vladimir Putin's options after Russian military setback in Ukraine?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to publicly comment on a lightning rout of his forces in north-eastern Ukraine, but is under pressure from nationalists at home to regain the initiative. → Read More
Gorbachev died shocked and bewildered by Ukraine conflict
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, was shocked and bewildered by the Ukraine conflict in the months before he died and psychologically crushed in recent years by Moscow's worsening ties with Kyiv, his interpreter said on Thursday. → Read More
Kremlin says Gorbachev helped end Cold War but was wrong about 'bloodthirsty' West
The Kremlin on Wednesday hailed late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as an extraordinary global statesman who helped end the Cold War, but said he had been badly wrong about the prospect of rapprochement with the "bloodthirsty" West. → Read More
Russian envoy to Bulgaria to ask Moscow to shut embassy after mass expulsions
Russia's ambassador to Bulgaria said on Friday she would ask Moscow to close its embassy in the Balkan country after her appeal for Sofia to reverse what she called an unprecedented hostile step to expel 70 Russian diplomatic staff was ignored. → Read More
Russia doesn't 'especially need' diplomatic ties with West
Russia doesn't really need diplomatic ties with the West anymore, ex-president and top security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday, shrugging off sanctions imposed on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. → Read More
Russia's Putin authorises 'special military operation' against Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin authorised "a special military operation" against Ukraine on Thursday morning to eliminate what he called a serious threat, saying his aim was to demilitarise Russia's southern neighbour. → Read More
Russia facing new sanctions after Putin recognises breakaway regions
The United States and its European allies are poised to announce harsh new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday after President Vladimir Putin formally recognised two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, escalating a security crisis on the continent. → Read More
Putin vents Ukraine grievances as justification for recognising Donbass
President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Monday to recognise two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine as independent statelets, defying Western warnings that such a step would be illegal and would kill off peace negotiations. → Read More
In piece of Kremlin theatre, Putin weighs fateful decision on Ukraine
Seated at a large white table in an echoing Kremlin hall, Vladimir Putin summoned his top security officials one by one on Monday to give him their advice at a potential turning point in the crisis around Ukraine. → Read More
Exclusive: Post-Soviet military bloc says it could send peacekeepers to Donbass if needed
The head of a Russia-dominated military alliance that is sometimes called Moscow's answer to NATO has said his organisation could send peacekeepers to territory in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia-backed rebels if needed. → Read More
Russian parliament to discuss recognising rebel-held east Ukraine as independent
Russia's parliament will hold consultations next week on an idea to appeal to President Vladimir Putin to recognise two pro-Russian breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent states, the chamber's speaker said on Friday. → Read More
Russia shuts Memorial Human Rights Centre in 'one-two punch'
Russia's Memorial Human Rights Centre was ordered to shut by a Moscow court on Wednesday, a day after its sister organisation - Russia's oldest human rights group - was forced to close. → Read More
'Erasing history': Russia closes top rights group, capping year of crackdowns
Russia's Supreme Court orderedthe country's oldest human rights group to disbandon Tuesday for breaking a law requiring it to act as "a foreign agent", capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet era. → Read More
Belarus jails opposition leader's husband for 18 years in 'revenge' verdict
A court in Belarus sentenced the opposition leader's husband to 18 years in jail on Tuesday after he was arrested during an attempt to run for president against incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, a verdict his wife called political revenge. → Read More
Putin rues Soviet collapse as demise of 'historical Russia'
President Vladimir Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago as the demise of what he called "historical Russia" and said the economic crisis that followed was so bad he was forced to moonlight as a taxi driver. → Read More