Putin's Russia
Opinion
Opinion
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
Latest
Accused Russian spies may apply for bail as case held up by translations
Australian Army private Kira Korolev and her labourer husband Igor Korolev were arrested in July, accused of spying on Australia for Russia.
- by Savannah Meacham
Ukraine offered Moscow bombing suspect $158,000 to kill top general, Russia claims
Russian authorities claim the detainee was promised $158,000 and safe passage to a European country if he helped kill Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.
- by Reuters
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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
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Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine says it killed top Russian general in charge of nuclear forces
Igor Kirillov, accused of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukraine, died when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off.
- by Andrew Osborn and Guy Faulconbridge
Opinion
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
Opinion
Vladimir Putin
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
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
Romanian vote annulled after declassified documents showed Russian meddling
Despite being an outsider who declared zero campaign spending and campaigned only on TikTok, Georgescu emerged as the frontrunner.
- by Stephen McGrath
ACU is an educational institution, not a church
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher’s attempt to theocratise the Australian Catholic University must fail.
Putin’s planes took away Ukrainian children for ‘Russification’: report
Forcible transfer is a crime against humanity under international law, but the Yale report says a Kremlin-led program took at least 314 children.
- by Anthony Deutsch
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