Only NATO threat to Putin is to his imperialist fantasy
The Kremlin propaganda point that seems most attractive to extremists on the left and the right views Russia as a victim of NATO enlargement.
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Exposed: CIA’s ‘artistic licence’ to fight communism
Jackson Pollock had no idea that he was part of a CIA drive to burnish the West with soft power – unlike Putin’s overt efforts today to challenge Eurovision.
The Kremlin’s enemy No.1: ‘Navalny was in real pain.’
One year after the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian gulag, photographer Evgeny Feldman recounts an earlier attack on the leader of Russia’s democracy movement, when a caustic green liquid was used.
Zelensky ‘open to facing Putin’
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky says he would agree to direct talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to end almost three years of war.
Authorities want to meet Jenkins in person to prove he is alive
Australian diplomats want Ukrainian and humanitarian counterparts to meet in-person with Oscar Jenkins in Russia, as Anthony Albanese says he refuses to take ‘the Putin regime at face value’.
‘Crisis’ may have been averted if Biden hadn’t ‘stolen’ election: Putin
The Russian president said he was ready to speak about the conflict in Ukraine with his American counterpart, whom he described as smart and pragmatic.
Trump orders documents on Kennedy, MLK assassinations to be declassified
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to release classified files held by the federal government on the assassinations of John F Kennedy, his brother Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Trump plays first hand on Putin
The unexpectedly forceful warning on his second day back in the White House sends a powerful message, the significance of which should elude neither Moscow nor Kyiv and its Western allies.
Blow torch lit on Putin for a deal to end the war
Donald Trump has turned up the heat on Vladimir Putin to negotiate a deal to end the war with Ukraine, threatening Russia with ‘high levels of taxes, tariffs, and sanctions’ if he refuses.
Why NATO is fighting a cold war on Baltic seabed
NATO has launched Operation Baltic Sentry on the border of Russia after three underwater cables were severed in the space of two months, harming critical infrastructure.
‘Make a deal’: Trump threatens Putin with sanctions, tariffs over Ukraine war
Donald Trump says unless Moscow moves to end the war with Ukraine he’ll impose tariffs and sanctions on Russia; Elon Musk pours cold water on the Stargate AI project.
‘We see you, Vlad’: British navy warns Russia over spy ship
A British submarine popped up next to a Russian spy ship as a warning to Moscow after Westminster feared the ‘loitering’ vessel was monitoring undersea cables in the Irish Sea.
Putin reassures African ally after overthrow of Assad
The collapse of Syria’s regime has spooked other rulers propped up by Russia, such as President Touadéra of the Central African Republic.
Trump could speak to Putin about Ukraine next week
The incoming US administration expects a conversation with the Kremlin within days of taking office.
Putin’s empire is crumbling — will 2025 prove to be his 1989?
Failure in Syria and the fall of Assad, endless war in Ukraine, rejection by eastern states, a loss of influence in the global south: this is not how it was meant to be for the Russian leader. And this year it could get worse.
Putin weak but more dangerous
Russia’s folly is pushing its former Soviet satellites further away. The Azerbaijan President is right to have rejected Vladimir Putin’s obfuscation over the shooting down of an airliner.
Putin revives Stalin’s state of informers and snitches
Vladimir Putin has called for ‘scum and traitors’ to be ‘spat out like a gnat’ as part of a necessary self-detoxification of society — and there are many willing volunteers.
Putin still craves respect of West, 25 years on
After initial friendly overtures and talk of democracy, Vladimir Putin’s rule quickly spiralled into stand-offs with the West and increasing political terrors at home.
Azerbaijan plane’s black box sent to Brazil for probe
Brazil manufactures the Embraer plane involved in the crash that killed 38, likely caused by Russian missiles; Vladimir Putin apologises for the tragedy but stops short of acknowledging responsibility.
Putin a problem for all: top brass
The nation’s top military officer in London has warned Russia’s use of North Korean and Iranian forces to destroy democratic Ukraine is ‘everyone’s business’ and said Australia’s role is vital.
Help! I’ve been petty-sacked for coffee-badging
Confused by the blizzard of business buzzwords, acronyms and coinages that came to the fore in 2024? It’s a jargon jungle out there but maybe this can help…
Russia tanker detained after more undersea Baltic cables cut
Finland detained the Russia tanker – part of Putin’s ‘dark fleet’ of sanctions busters amid calls for NATO to defend against growing incidents of sabotage blamed on Moscow.
Biden eyes sanctions on Russia’s ‘dark fleet’ of oil ships
In his last weeks in office, Joe Biden is planning sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, targeting the ships carrying Russian oil around the world and bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war chest.
The good, the fat and the ugly who want to fight in Ukraine
The notion of a prison swap between a forlorn Australian vegan incongruously fighting on the battlefields of the Donbas and a grossly obese, sweaty man holed up in an apartment in Woollahra, claiming diplomatic protection, invites a raft of fat jokes.
Missing journalist Tice ‘alive’ in Syria: US NGO
US group Hostage Aid Worldwide says it has information that Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, is still alive, but didn’t offer concrete information on his whereabouts.
‘Prisoner swap or gulag’: Aussie Cossack asks to be exchanged for Jenkins
Simeon Boikov, who is holed up in the Russian embassy in Sydney, tells The Australian he’s ready to be swapped for a Melbourne man captured by Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine.
The global hunt for Putin’s ‘sleeper agents’
A quiet suburban mum, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction, Vladimir Putin.
Putin ‘will ask Assad about kidnapped journo Tice’
Speaking at the beginning of his annual marathon press conference, Vladimir Putin insisted Russia hadn’t suffered defeat in Syria and stays bullish on Ukraine.
Kyiv embassy decision is overdue
It is a serious national embarrassment that Australia, alone among Western allies, has been the standout laggard and taken so long to restore our embassy to the Ukrainian capital.
We stand with The Times writers
With its appalling record of killing opponents, the Putin regime’s warning that editorial writers at our sister paper ‘are now legitimate military targets’ must be taken seriously.
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