Russia
J.D. Vance describes Trump plan to end Ukraine war. It sounds a lot like Putin’s
The plan focuses on Russia keeping the territory it has captured and forcing Ukraine to become neutral. Sounds familiar?
- by Julian E. Barnes
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Russia-Ukraine war
Russia set fire to nuclear plant to ‘blackmail’ the world, Zelensky says
The Ukrainian president has indirectly acknowledged his nation’s incursion into Russia, saying his country must “push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.”
- by Lidia Kelly
How two Russian spies went deep under cover with their children
A couple planted as sleeper spies in Slovenia were caught in December 2022. They were sent to Moscow in a prisoner exchange last week.
- by Andrew Higgins
The obscure Russian-linked ‘news’ website that is fuelling violence on Britain’s streets
The website Channel3 falsely named the teen accused of murdering three girls at dance school in England, sending conspiracy theorists and the far-Right into a tailspin.
- by Lauren Shirreff
A reporter, a Russian killer and everyone else freed in the prisoner swap
Twenty-four prisoners were freed in a multi-country exchange on Friday, the largest exchange between Russia and the West in years.
- by Ivan Nechepurenko, Valerie Hopkins and Alina Lobzina
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Putin's Russia
‘Day of great joy’: Russia frees Wall Street Journal reporter in major prisoner swap
Evan Gershkovich and two other American prisoners have touched down in the US after the deal saw 24 prisoners from the US, Russia, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus freed.
- by Matthew Lee
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US Votes 2024
Biden seeks diplomacy in prisoner swap, Putin may see different lesson
Eleven days after his remarkable decision to drop out of the US election, America’s now lame-duck president had one of the most important breakthroughs of his time in office.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Rewriting history in real time: Russia builds Wikipedia copy … with a few edits
The most sensitive moments of history have been left out or rewritten on RuWiki. The Kremlin hopes millions of Russians will now embrace these new versions as the truth.
- by The Economist
Crimean beachgoers struck by deadly shrapnel shower from missile
Footage on Russian state television showed people running from a beach and some people being carried off on sun loungers.
- by Guy Faulconbridge and Filipp Lebedev
Russia v the Olympics: How hacks, bedbug scares and a fake Tom Cruise could disrupt the Games
Total meltdown or death by a thousand hacks? The Paris Games face the biggest cyber threat so far. And the fallout could reach well beyond cyberspace.
- by Sherryn Groch and Marta Pascual Juanola
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Russia-Ukraine war
World leaders just pledged ‘lasting peace’ in Ukraine. Achieving it is still a long way off
Any path to ending war in Ukraine will cost many more lives and billions and billions of dollars.
- by Rob Harris
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