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  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    Russia trained officers for attacks on Japan and South Korea

    Leaked military files show detailed plans for strikes on civilian infrastructure in event of war

    Montage featuring the domes of St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, a Japanese flag, a map of Japan, an illustration of a missile and aircraft
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Russian economy
    Russian smugglers import luxury cars from Europe despite sanctions

    Wealthy customers hit with hefty charges as importers forced to take longer routes

    A montage of an advert for a car for sale, and the Kremlin skyline
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    News in-depthRomania
    ‘Dangerous precedent’: Romania split over election rerun

    Cancellation of presidential vote divides society as government blamed for ignoring alleged Russian meddling

    Călin Georgescu
  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    Aviation accidents and safety
    Putin apologises to Azerbaijan for Kazakhstan air crash

    Russian president calls disaster a ‘tragic incident’ and launches criminal investigation

    People lay flowers in memory of the victims of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    US finds ‘early indications’ of Russian involvement in Azerbaijani jet crash

    Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan suspend flights to Russia after deadly incident

    Rescuers work at the site of the crashed Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft on Thursday
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Aviation accidents and safety
    Russia accused of shooting down Azerbaijan passenger plane

    US and regional officials and aviation experts suggest anti-aircraft fire could be to blame for crash in Kazakhstan

    Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Tony Barber
    A long nightmare of repression awaits Ukraine’s occupied lands

    Any ceasefire that leaves Putin with his conquests will bring more Russification and denial of civil liberties

    People feed birds in front of a mural on an embankment in Yalta, Crimea
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Luxury goods
    Russians turn to ‘personal shoppers’ to smuggle luxury bags

    Customs records show middlemen are keeping high-end fashion flowing to Moscow despite sanctions

    Red Square in Moscow
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Russian cargo ship sinks in Mediterranean after engine room explosion

    The Ursa Major had been under US sanctions linked to war in Ukraine

    The Ursa Major on the Bosphorus in Turkey last year
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    News in-depthMisinformation
    From vaccines to votes: Russian ad agency influences Europeans

    AdNow was implicated in misinformation campaigns in France, Germany and Romania

    A man records a video of pro-Putin candidate Călin Georgescu in Romania
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Russian politics
    Russia aims to be global leader in nuclear power plant construction

    Vladimir Putin’s envoy says more than 10 units are being built in countries such as China, Iran and Turkey

    Fishermen catch fish on Lalon Shah Bridge over Ganges River, Padma, with cooling towers of Rooppur nuclear power
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Russian politics
    Putin meets Slovakia’s Fico in rare visit by an EU leader since Ukraine invasion

    Slovak prime minister has ‘one-on-one’ meeting at Kremlin as Ukraine prepares to halt transit of Russian gas

    Vladimir Putin and Robert Fico greet each other at the Kremlin
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    ExplainerWar in Ukraine
    Tracking Ukraine’s battle against Russia in maps and charts

    A visual guide to the war

  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    EU energy
    EU imports record quantities of Russian LNG in 2024

    Bloc received 16.5mn tonnes of liquefied natural gas by mid-December despite efforts to reduce supplies from Russia

    An LNG tanker moored in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    News in-depthRussian economy
    Russia struggles to tame inflation in ‘overheating’ war economy

    Central bank holds interest rate at 21%

    Vladimir Putin is seated on the left side of a polished wooden table, facing Elvira Nabiullina
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Vladimir Putin
    Putin denies Russia was defeated in Syria

    President plays down Moscow’s military support for Assad regime and claims Kremlin ‘achieved our goals’

    Two men hold up a banner behind Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on Thursday
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Romania
    Russian election meddling ‘nearly impossible’ to prove, says Romania’s president

    Klaus Iohannis urges close co-ordination among EU leaders to combat foreign interference after Bucharest annulled vote

    Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy Kaja Kallas and European parliament President Roberta Metsola at an EU summit in Brussels
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    The vast spy agency behind Russian general’s death

    Latest strike in shadow war with Moscow led by SBU, which emerged from Soviet Union’s KGB

    Investigators stand near the scene of an explosion outside a residential apartment block in Moscow. The area is cordoned off, with several vehicles parked nearby. Two bodies are covered on the snow-covered ground,
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Moscow arrests suspect in general’s killing

    FSB says Uzbek suspect was offered $100,000 and safe passage to an EU country

    Police at the scene after Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed in an explosion in Moscow, Russia
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Justice for the victims of Assad’s atrocities in Syria

    An immediate priority is to secure evidence of crimes by the previous regime

    A man shows two ropes tied in the shape of nooses, found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Top Russian general killed in bomb blast in Moscow

    Ukraine official says Kyiv was behind assassination of Igor Kirillov, head of nuclear, chemical and biological defence forces

    Igor Kirillov
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Europe agrees insurance crackdown on Russia’s ‘dark fleet’

    Tankers carrying Russian oil must show they have adequate cover when passing through European waters

    A Russian oil tanker
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Putin threatens to lift missile restraints in warning to west

    Russian president says Moscow is being pushed to ‘a red line we can’t step back from’

    Vladimir Putin on stage
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Storm-hit Russian petroleum tankers trigger fears of fuel spills in Black Sea

    One vessel’s prow breaks off and another craft runs aground in Kerch Strait off Crimea

    A video showing the prow breaking off from the Volgodonsk 212 carrier in the Kerch Strait
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russia pulls hundreds of troops out of Damascus

    Hayat Tahrir al-Sham says it co-ordinated retreat of soldiers to Hmeimim air base with Moscow

    A Russian military convoy heads towards Hmeimim air base
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