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BHP Billiton Coal President Dean Dalla Valle, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, & Member for Capricornia Michelle Landry at the opening of Caval Ridge coal mine at Moranbah. Photographer: Liam Kidston.

PM vows to ‘shirt front’ Putin at G20

TONY Abbott has warned Vladimir Putin he will demand Russia cooperates when he arrives in Australia for the G20.

Sarah-Jane Tasker

Russin president Vladimir Putin waves to spectators on the podium after the inaugural Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom Formula One circuit, in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Putin ‘rubbing MH17 in our faces’

BILL Shorten says Vladimir Putin should have enough of a conscience not to visit Australia for the G20 leaders summit.

STEFANIE BALOGH

The Times Sport

From left, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone attend the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom Formula One circuit, in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin laps up Hamilton victory

LEWIS Hamilton won the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi that was overshadowed by the presence of President Putin, risking controversy and condemnation.

Kevin Eason

Prime Minister Tony Abbott poses for photos with volunteers at the G20 Volunteers launch morning tea in Brisbane. Photo: Claudia Baxter

Putin to attend G20: Hockey

JOE Hockey says Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 meeting in Brisbane next month and there is nothing Australia can do.

David Uren

EXCLUSIVEForeign Affairs

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures after his visit to Youth Olympic School in Cheboksary on October 9, 2014. AFP PHOTO/RIA-NOVOSTI/POOL/ALEXEI DRUZHININ

Abbott ‘seeks advice’ on Putin

THE Abbott government is “seeking advice” on whether it should be represented at a meeting in Moscow next week.

Dennis Shanahan

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew speaks at the end of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Cairns on September 21, 2014. Finance ministers from G20 nations meet in Cairns this weekend as they grapple with how to achieve a lift in global growth by two percent while being held back by a sickly eurozone recovery. AFP PHOTO/William WEST

Putin told to solve Ukraine before summit

VLADIMIR Putin is being urged to end Russia’s interference in Ukraine before he joins world leaders at the G20 summit.

David Crowe

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with young scientists at the Russian Experimental Physics Institute in the Sarov nuclear center, former Arzamas-16, in Sarov near Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Door open for Putin at G20

VLADIMIR Putin will be invited to the G20 summit in Brisbane despite Australia’s strong criticism of Russia’s support for separatist rebels in Ukraine.

DAVID CROWE

Review

Undated : Vladimir Petrov, third secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, granted political asylum in 1954, along with his wife Evdokia Petrov. Pictured with others including his wife. N6676738

A (not so) Cold War

THE Cold War dominated geopolitics after World War II and, in the light of events in the Ukraine, some commentators think a new version is emerging.

Ross Fitzgerald

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, right, listens to his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop during a press conference in Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Australia and Indonesia have reached a new agreement on how they'll use their intelligence operations in the future, even settling their disagreement on its name.(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Invest more in defence, Bishop tells NATO

FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop has foreshadowed new sanctions against Russia if there is no immediate peace pact in Ukraine.

Jacquelin Magnay in Wales

Strewth

Kievan Rudd

REMEMBER when Kevin Rudd zipped off to Moscow and everyone thought he was on a one-man mission to broker peace?

Cut & Paste

Remember this: it’s probably our fault

PUTIN can breathe easy as The Guardian stands ever ready to pin all the blame on the West.

Editorials

Putin’s cross-border aggression

The West must be resolute in its response to Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with South African President Jacob Zuma in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

More calls to cancel Putin’s G20 invite

TONY Abbott will discuss with international leaders whether Vladimir Putin should be barred from the G20 summit in Brisbane.

BRENDAN NICHOLSON and Cameron Stewart

Open door to Putin, PM told

AUSTRALIA is under pressure from other members of the G20 to ensure Russian President Vladimir Putin is allowed to attend the summit.

Dennis Shanahan and Political Editor

This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press-Service on July 28, 2014 shows Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) shaking hands with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop prior their meeting in Kiev. AFP PHOTO / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / MYKOLA LAZARENKO -- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Putin and friends hit by new sanctions

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is being increasingly isolated on three fronts in the latest political developments over the downing of MH17.

JACQUELIN MAGNAY in AMSTERDAM

In-Depth

This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), in the Donetsk region. Ukraine sought on July 25 to avoid a political crisis after the shock resignation of its prime minister, as fighting between the army and rebels close to the Malaysian airliner crash site claimed over a dozen more lives. Dutch and Australian forces were being readied on July 26 for possible deployment to secure the rebel-held crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in east Ukraine where many victims' remains still lie nine days after the disaster claimed 298 lives. AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC

Abbott, Putin discuss Ukraine plan

THE two leaders held a telephone conversation to discuss organising an independent international probe into the downing of MH17.

Inquirer

Pro-Russian rebels, right, followed by members of the OSCE mission, walk by plane wreckage as they arrive for a media briefing at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. A team of Malaysian investigators visited the site along with members of the OSCE mission for the first time since last week's crash. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Strongman aims to down justice quest

PUTIN mounts a Soviet-style propoganda campaign.

Cameron Stewart

Graham Richardson

Putin’s appetite is not sated

EUROPE has let out barely a whimper over the MH17 catastrophe.

Graham Richardson

Greg Sheridan

Putin’s interest in dragging matters out

RUSSIA’S strongman Vladimir Putin has behaved brutally and cynically but with considerable tactical flexibility in Ukraine.

Greg Sheridan and comment

Opinion

Crimea's Russia-backed leader Sergei Aksyonov gestures as people celebrate in Lenin Square, in downtown Simferopol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Polls have closed in Crimea's contentious referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia. The vote, unrecognized both by the Ukrainian government and the West, was held Sunday as Russian flags fluttered in the breeze and retirees grew weepy at the thought of reuniting with Russia. (AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Imperialist ideologue driving Putin

ALEKSANDR Dugin pushes a grisly line in propaganda.

Mervyn F Bendle

Dutch Prime minister Mark Rutte adresses the media with the latest updates on the transportation by train from Torez to Kharkiv of the bodies of victims from flight MH17, on July 21, 2014 in The Hague. Western powers on July 21 ratcheted up the pressure on Moscow over the Malaysian plane disaster, as a train loaded with some 280 bodies was finally allowed to leave a rebel-held station four days after the jet crashed in strife-torn east Ukraine. The train carrying bodies from flight MH17 could take 10-12 hours to reach the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv after passing through rebel-held territory, Rutte said. AFP PHOTO / ANP / VALERIE KUYPERS ** Netherlands Out **

Diplomatic heroes’ tactics win out

AUSTRALIA and the Netherlands played a good cop, bad cop routine to achieve the release of the MH17 bodies, experts say.

Jacquelin Magnay in Amsterdam

Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, early on July 21, 2014, while recording his video address on the Malaysia Airlines crash. In his overnight video address shown today in the early hours Putin said that the Malaysia Airlines crash should not be used for

Putin backs recovery of bodies

VLADIMIR Putin has bowed to pressure and pledged Russian support to recover bodies and key evidence from the crash site of Flight MH17.

Jamie Walker and BRENDAN NICHOLSON

Prime Minister Tony Abbott calls a press conference with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to discuss the Malaysian airline shooting.

Abbott’s fury heard across world

AS Russian President Vladimir Putin cops it from the world’s media as the villain, Tony Abbott is being portrayed in a good way.

Michael Owen

Editorials

Putin must facilitate full site access

RUSSIA deserves harsh sanctions if it vetos the UN resolution.

‘Bring my babies back now Mr Putin’

ACROSS The Netherlands the atmosphere is as flat as the terrain. In the streets people spontaneously hug, families carry bouquets.

JAQUELIN MAGNAY in AMSTERDAM

Opinion

Dr Paul Dibb a retire professor and former senior Defence bureaucrat spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture: Gary Ramage

Putin’s hand is all over catastrophe

THE President’s denial is classic KGB deception.

PAUL DIBB

Russian President Vladmir Putin (C) attends a celebration of the 700th anniversary of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the Trinity St. Sergius monastery in Sergeiv Posad outside Moscow on July 18, 2014. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV

Irate West demands Putin’s help

MOSCOW faces growing condemnation and isolation as world leaders demand Vladimir Putin cooperate fully with the MH17 investigation.

BRENDAN NICHOLSON and STEFANIE BALOGH

Opinion

Putin’s hand is all over catastrophe

THE President’s denial is classic KGB deception.

PAUL DIBB