Russia
Analysis
Russia-Ukraine war
North Korean troops fighting for Russia is worldwide wake-up call
Vladimir Putin leaning on Kim Jong-un for troops would give Russia access to more than 1 million fighters. This war may very soon belong to everyone.
- by Rob Harris
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Trump claims Ukraine is ‘absolutely obliterated’
The former US president says Ukraine should have made concessions to Vladimir Putin in the months before Russia’s 2022 attack.
- by Jonathan J. Cooper
Authorities seize 12 devices in case of alleged Russian spies
Australian army soldier Kira Korolev allegedly told her partner how to log into Defence systems on her official work account from their Brisbane home.
- by Cloe Read
J.D. Vance describes Trump plan to end Ukraine war. It sounds a lot like Putin’s
The plan focuses on Russia keeping the territory it has captured and forcing Ukraine to become neutral. Sounds familiar?
- by Julian E. Barnes
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Russia-Ukraine war
Russia set fire to nuclear plant to ‘blackmail’ the world, Zelensky says
The Ukrainian president has indirectly acknowledged his nation’s incursion into Russia, saying his country must “push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.”
- by Lidia Kelly
How two Russian spies went deep under cover with their children
A couple planted as sleeper spies in Slovenia were caught in December 2022. They were sent to Moscow in a prisoner exchange last week.
- by Andrew Higgins
The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ website that is fuelling violence on Britain’s streets
The website Channel3 falsely named the teen accused of murdering three girls at dance school in England, sending conspiracy theorists and the far-Right into a tailspin.
- by Lauren Shirreff
A reporter, a Russian killer and everyone else freed in the prisoner swap
Twenty-four prisoners were freed in a multi-country exchange on Friday, the largest exchange between Russia and the West in years.
- by Ivan Nechepurenko, Valerie Hopkins and Alina Lobzina
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Putin's Russia
‘Day of great joy’: Russia frees Wall Street Journal reporter in major prisoner swap
Evan Gershkovich and two other American prisoners have touched down in the US after the deal saw 24 prisoners from the US, Russia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus freed.
- by Matthew Lee
Analysis
US Votes 2024
Biden seeks diplomacy in prisoner swap, Putin may see different lesson
Eleven days after his remarkable decision to drop out of the US election, America’s now lame-duck president had one of the most important breakthroughs of his time in office.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Rewriting history in real time: Russia builds Wikipedia copy … with a few edits
The most sensitive moments of history have been left out or rewritten on RuWiki. The Kremlin hopes millions of Russians will now embrace these new versions as the truth.
- by The Economist
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