Vladimir Putin

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

CommentaryThe Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the G20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, on November 21, 2020. - The leaders are huddling online for the two-day gathering as international efforts intensify for a large-scale rollout of coronavirus vaccines after a breakthrough in trials, and as calls grow for G20 nations to plug a $4.5-billion funding shortfall. (Photo by Alexey NIKOLSKY / Sputnik / AFP)

Putin’s mobster regime is running out of time

The Russian president’s power to influence events at home and abroad looks increasingly weak.

Roger Boyes

World

TOPSHOT - A Russian army T-72-B3 tank fires during military exercises at the Raevsky range in Southern Russia on September 23, 2020 during the "Caucasus-2020" military drills gathering China, Iran, Pakistan and Myanmar troops, along with ex-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. - Up to 250 tanks and around 450 infantry combat vehicles and armoured personnel carriers will take part in the September 21 to 26 land and naval exercises that will involve 80,000 people including support staff. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Russia’s war games unite West-weary allies

Vladimir Putin will oversee military exercises as Russia stages a series of drills with allies amid fresh tensions with the West.

Maxime Popov

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Who’s really behind the poisoning?

The attack on Alexei Navalny looks more like an anti-Russian PR tactic than a Kremlin plot. The culprit may be the shadowy ‘siloviki’.

NINA KHRUSHCHEVA

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Inside Putin’s private mercenary force

Across the globe, a group of brutal Russian hired guns are giving their President a strategic foothold in resource-rich nations.

JASON THOMAS

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Putin’s enemies find more than a storm in a teacup

You can’t help bad luck and it seems that those who criticise the Russian leader have plenty of it.

CommentaryThe Times

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 21: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (not pictured) meets with Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Downing Street for talks on July 21, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Hannah McKay - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Complacent Britain is a soft touch for Russia

The establishment seems content to live on past glories and turn a blind eye to foreign meddling and dirty money

David Aaronovitch

commentaryThe Times

SHANGHAI, CHINA - MAY 21: President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping toast with vodka during a signing ceremony on May 21, 2014 in Shanghai, China. Russia and China signed a thirty-year contract for supply of gas. (Photo by Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

Rulers for life want more than statues

Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, vain men with powerful armies, crave political immortality. It’s a dangerous time for the world.

Roger Boyes

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Self-propelled artillery vehicle Msta-S stand prior to a rehearsal for a military parade in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 18, 2020. The military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi defeat was postponed from May 9 because of the coronavirus pandemic and is now set for June 24. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

We won the war, Putin tells US

In an American journal, Vladimir Putin has insisted on recognition of the Soviet Union as the prime defeater of the Nazi Germany.

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(FILES) This file picture taken on December 30, 2019 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 31, 2019 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending the third-day session of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. - North Korea discussed new policies for increasing its "nuclear war deterrence" during a military meeting presided over by leader Kim Jong Un, state news agency KCNA reported on May 24, 2020. (Photo by KCNA / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / - South Korea OUT / ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE --- /

Coronavirus fails to hit the big targets

It might be asking too much to dispatch heavyweights like Putin or Xi Jinping, but it’s yet to take down anyone who deserved it.

Jack the Insider

World

Russia, Belarus a contrast of Victory Days

Vladimir Putin made his first appearance in a month at a lowkey ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

JIM HEINTZ

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Putin on perilous rodeo ride of crises

A wounded bear is unpredictable, and Russia’s leader is hurting.

PAUL DIBB

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Putin’s critics pay the ultimate price

Russian leader’s enemies are dropping like flies, and you won’t believe the unusual coincidences.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Federal Assembly at the Manezh exhibition hall in downtown Moscow on January 15, 2020. (Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Evil at the heart of Russia

Vladimir Putin is not just a power-hungry autocrat, he is also the world’s most despicable thief.

Paul Monk

CommentaryThe Times

***BESTPIX*** CEYLANPINAR, TURKEY - OCTOBER 12: Smoke rises over the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, as seen from the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar on October 12, 2019 in Ceylanpinar, Turkey. The military action is part of a campaign to extend Turkish control of more of northern Syria, a large swath of which is currently held by Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey regards as a threat. U.S. President Donald Trump granted tacit American approval to this campaign, withdrawing his country's troops from several Syrian outposts near the Turkish border. (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)

Trump plays into Putin’s hands

Russia has been seeking a US retreat from Syria ever since troops were sent there.

Catherine Philp

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Julian Assange is many things

Anyone who inspires Pamela Anderson to poetry (‘he’s quite sexy’) cannot be all bad.

Wall Street Journal

The familiar fate of Putin’s foes

A trio of wealthy Russians made an enemy of Vladimir Putin by illuminating a history he wanted erased. Now all three are dead.

Alan Cullison

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