Vladimir Putin
Opinion
Putin's Russia
Putin’s spectacular act of self-sabotage has killed the Kremlin’s biggest market
Gazprom was for decades Russia’s biggest money-spinner and the most striking symbol of the Kremlin’s influence abroad.
- by Ben Marlow
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Russia-Ukraine war
Australia to reopen embassy in Kyiv almost three years after Russian invasion
The government had been encouraged by President Volodymyr Zelensky to reopen the embassy, while other senior Ukrainians had expressed frustration with the government’s reluctance to return.
- by Rob Harris
‘Never considered stepping down’: Bashar al-Assad says Russia forced him to flee Syria
In his first statement since the fall of Damascus, the exiled former president said he wanted to continue fighting.
- by Daniel Hardaker
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Trump's America
He’s Person Of The Year, again! But Trump’s most powerful years are ahead
And Australia can’t be assured that it will escape a rampant re-elected president’s punishments.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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Putin's Russia
Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think
Vladimir Putin’s war machine is pushing Russia’s economy to the brink.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Who is Assad dining with in Russia? It’s not Putin
Bashar al-Assad may still be quaffing champagne and slurping caviar in his new life of luxury in exile in Russia.
- by James Kilner
Putin’s banker feels the heat as Russia’s elite turn on each other
Vladimir Putin has long given central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina an unusual degree of autonomy to keep the Russian economy stable. But she is now under pressure.
- by Anatoly Kurmanaev
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