Vladimir Putin

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Biden is right to call out a tyrant

Russia’s Vladimir Putin remains a threat to Western democracies.

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US President Joe Biden takes part in a virtual bilateral meeting with Irish Prime Minister MicheÃ¡l Martin in the Oval Office at the White House on March 17, 2021 in Washington,DC. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

‘Killer’ Putin will ‘pay the price’: Biden

Russia called its US ambassador back to Moscow in the first diplomatic crisis of the Biden administration.

Chris Lefkow

The Wall Street Journal

Russian President Vladimir Putin participates via video link in a ceremony to launch the construction of a third reactor of the Turkish nuclear power plant built by Russia's energy giant Rosatom, in Moscow on March 10, 2021. (Photo by Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP)

US poll ops led by Putin, ayatollah

Intelligence assessment says Putin tried to hurt Biden’s prospects and sow discord while Khamenei moved to undercut Trump.

Dustin Volz and Warren P. Strobel

REACTIONS ‘WONDERFUL’Life

Vladimir Putin stops a pencil rolling off his desk, right, ... and is praised by state television for his ability to do so. It's a stark contrast to the days he was phootgraphed bare-chested on horseback. Pictures: Twitter/AFP

Putin wows viewers … by catching a pencil

Blame the pandemic. Russian state TV praises president for wrestling wayward pencils rather than wrangling wildlife.

Marc Bennetts

World

(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 23, 2020 Moscow city deputy and opposition activist Yulia Galyamina waves to supporters as she arrives in Moscow, to attend the verdict earing of her trial on charge of violating a 2014 protest law while campaigning against changes to the constitution allowing the President to extend his term in office. - Russian police arrested around 200 opposition politicians and municipal deputies, on March 13, 2021 at a Moscow conference as authorities tighten the screws on Kremlin critics ahead of parliamentary elections. A number of well-known opposition figures including Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Yulia Galyamina, Yevgeny Roizman and Andrei Pivovarov as well as journalists have been detained. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)

Russian police detain dozens of opposition pollies

Police raid on an opposition conference in Moscow dedicated to running for municipal office.

Anna Smolchenko

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Saddle up, cowboy

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Glynis Traill-Nash

RESOURCESMining & Energy

Employees from the local Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau collect samples at a coal dump site of Rizhao Port in Rizhao, Shandong province February 24, 2010. VCP (Photo by Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images)

Russian coal set to replace our exports

Russian president Vladimir Putin is targeting Australian coal markets in China.

Lachlan Moffet Gray and Nick Evans

World

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing at the Babushkinsky district court in Moscow on February 20, 2021. - The Kremlin's most prominent opponent Alexei Navalny faces two court decisions on Saturday that could seal a judge's ruling to jail him for several years, after he returned to Russia following a poisoning attack. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Biden to impose sanctions on Russia

The sanctions would be Joe Biden’s first on Russia, a marked departure from Donald Trump’s approach to Moscow.

AFP

The Times

TOPSHOT - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing at the Babushkinsky district court in Moscow on February 20, 2021. - The Kremlin's most prominent opponent Alexei Navalny faces two court decisions on Saturday that could seal a judge's ruling to jail him for several years, after he returned to Russia following a poisoning attack. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Navalny sent to gulag where inmates disappear

The Kremlin critic has been sent to a penal colony known for its tough regime and “psychological methods” used against inmates.

Tom Parfitt

The Times

Amnesty ‘folds’ to Kremlin on Navalny

Amnesty International has stripped the jailed opposition leader of his status as a prisoner of conscience.

Marc Bennetts

COMMENTARYThe Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad during their meeting in Sochi on May 17, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Mikhail KLIMENTYEV

Could Putin be a Middle East peacemaker?

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expanding his role as a Middle East power player, exploiting the gap left by the withdrawal of the US from the region.

Roger Boyes

The Times

Chief of Staff and Political director of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov speaks during a joint press conference with CEO of the Anti-Corruption foundation at the Lithuanian Embassy in Brussels on February 22, 2021. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)

EU slaps curbs on Putin loyalists

Alexei Navalny’s chief aide urges European policymakers to speak to the Russian president in ‘the language of power’.

Marc Bennetts

World

Courts deliver Navalny double hit

A Moscow judge has upheld a ruling to jail the top Kremlin critic, as he lost two court cases in one day.

Maria Panina and Victoria Loguinova

The Times

This screen grab from a handout footage provided by the Babushkinsky district court on February 16, 2021, shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with defaming a World War II veteran, gesturing from inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow. (Photo by Handout / Moscow's Babushkinsky district court press service / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Free Navalny now: top European court

The court ruled that Russia was unable to provide sufficient safeguards for the Kremlin critic’s life and health.

Marc Bennetts

The Times

TOPSHOT - Russian women holding roses and signs form a human chain using Valentine's Day to express support for the wife of jailed opposition leader Navalny and political prisoners, in Saint Petersburg on February 14, 2021. - The gathering came after authorities last week sentenced Navalny, the Russian President's top critic, to nearly three years in prison and unleashed a crackdown on his supporters. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)

Supporters light up for Navalny

Protesters staged a nationwide flashmob called ‘Love is Stronger than Fear’ on Valentine’s Day in solidarity with Alexei Navalny.

Tom Parfitt

The Times

Yulia Navalnaya, wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks outside Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 where the opposition leader was admitted after he fell ill in what his spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning, in Omsk on August 21, 2020. - The wife of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on August 21, 2020 made a direct appeal to President Vladimir Putin to permit her husband's medical evacuation to Germany. Navalny, a 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner who is among President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, was hospitalised in Omsk after he lost consciousness while on a flight and his plane made an emergency landing. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Bid to block Navalny wife from poll

Russia could introduce a law to prevent the wife of the imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for parliament.

The Times

European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Joseph Borrell speaks during press conference following a meeting with EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs at the EU headquarters, in Brussels, on January 25, 2021. (Photo by JOHN THYS / POOL / AFP)

EU foreign affairs chief urged to quit over visit

Europe’s foreign affairs chief faces calls to resign after a trip to Moscow that is widely seen as a humiliation for the EU.

Bruno Waterfield

Kremlin criticWorld

This screen grab from a handout footage provided by the Moscow City Court press service shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, gesturing a heart shape from inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow on February 2, 2021. (Photo by Alexey PAVLOVSKY / Moscow City Court press service / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Navalny jailed for more than two years

Western governments have expressed outrage at the jailing of the Kremlin critic and protests have erupted again in Russia.

Agencies

The Wall Street Journal

Police detain people during a protest against a court decision ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for nearly three years, in downtown Moscow on February 2, 2021. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Biden needs to marshal unified Western response

The Wall Street Journal ask if the Biden administration can marshal a unified Western response to Navalny’s prison sentence.

commentaryThe Wall Street Journal

CX3RDT ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. MARCH 10, 2011. US vice president Joe Biden (L) and Russia's prime minister Vladimir Putin shake hands as they pose for a photograph during a meeting. (Photo ITAR-TASS/ Valery Sharifulin) . . 10 . - - ( ) . -/

Biden talks tough on Russia but there’s no big stick

Joe Biden criticised Vladimir Putin over Alexei Navalny but sent a very different signal on nuclear arms control.

The Wall St Journal Editorial Board

ANALYSISThe Times

Riot police block protesters (main picture) during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny (inset right) in Saint Petersburg. Navalny, 44, is seen as the biggest threat to Vladimir Putin's leadership. Pictures: AFP

How Navalny became Putin’s worst nightmare

Russia’s opposition leader is driven by a deep loathing for the Kremlin authorities. And he’s angrier than ever.

Marc Bennetts

commentaryThe Times

Protestors face off law enforcement officers during a rally in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Russia starts to believe Putin not the only option

In Alexei Navalny, Russians can begin to see a viable substitute for Putin. Change isn’t round the corner, but is down the road.

Tom Parfitt

the return of chaos?The Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Russian students via a videoconference at a residence in Zavidovo, Tver region, on the Students' Day on January 25, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Putin misjudges his greatest threat: the Russian people

Russia’s history is punctuated with revolutions rooted in mass protest and seldom have so many government opponents of disparate hues united against Putin.

Matthew Campbell

World

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest, outside Moscow, Russia January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

‘You will never keep me chained down’

Alexei Navalny denounces Kremlin pressure on a biased judiciary during a hearing in which he was ordered to remain behind bars.

Anastasia Clark

The Times

Timur Kuashev, a journalist critical of President Putin, was found dead in the city of Nalchik in 2014

Hit squad accused of new poisoning deaths

A Russian journalist and an activist were allegedly assassinated by the same Kremlin hit squad that later poisoned Alexei Navalny.

Tom Parfitt

SHARP STARTThe Times

US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Pictures: Agencies

Biden: Come clean on Navalny

In his first phone call with Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden pulled no punches over the poisoning of opposition activist.

Ben Hoyle

‘SECRET’ PALACEThe Times

This grab taken on January 25, 2021 of an handout video of the Alexey Navalny Youtube Channel shows an aerial view of a property, located along Russia's southern Black Sea, that Navalny claimes is owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin. - Russian President Vladimir Putin, on January 25, 2021, dismissed claims by opposition leader Alexei Navalny that he owns a lavish property on the Black Sea, as the opposition urged fresh nationwide demonstrations. (Photo by Handout / Alexey Navalny Youtube Channel / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Putin on the ritz: ‘I don’t own it’

Vladimir Putin has rubbished claims that he is the secret owner of a $1.7bn palace on the coast of the Black Sea.

marc bennetts

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Navalny mobilises free spirits

Mr Putin must pay a price if he moves to snuff out peaceful protest.

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RUSSIAN TURMOILThe Times

TOPSHOT - A woman holding an icon kneels in front of a group of riot police during a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on January 23, 2021. - Navalny, 44, was detained last Sunday upon returning to Moscow after five months in Germany recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent and later jailed for 30 days while awaiting trial for violating a suspended sentence he was handed in 2014. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

‘Navalny best chance of bringing down Putin’

President Putin is facing one of the biggest challenges to his grip on Russia since he came to power amid huge mass protest arrests.

Marc Bennetts

commentaryThe Times

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's team has released a report about a sprawling, opulent Black Sea palace allegedly owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: https://palace.navalny.com/#chapter-2

Behold ‘mad’ King Vlad’s pleasure palace

To say the details of Vladimir Putin’s secret palace are gobstopping is to totally understate the sheer insanity of the project. But it’s all a bit sad, really.

Camilla Long

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