Russia is the most sanctioned country in the world, since the Ukraine war.
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Russia has looked for new trading partners as sanctions bite, but also suffered a brain drain.
Today Russia: Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow, February 29.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Not all smooth sailing for the Russian economy, but far from choppy waters.
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The US has imposed another round of sanctions following the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. But will it work?
French president, Emmanuel Macron: ‘Can’t rule out’ sending ground troops to Ukraine.
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Sending ground troops to Ukraine could provoke a wider and vastly more dangerous war with Russia,
Russia sees Serbia as an important ally.
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Europe should not ignore the importance of Serbia as a Russian ally.
Mavka in Mavka: The Forest Song.
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Sometimes I feel that after Chernobyl our land is cursed. Hearing about French children watching Mavka in a Parisian cinema, I felt hope.
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Most of Vladimir Putin’s opponents are either dead, in jail or in exile. But it might just be ordinary people who can take over the battle for democracy in Russia.
Will war fatigue be a factor?
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Russia appears to have seized the battleground initiative as the Ukraine war marks its second anniversary – but the conflict is far from over.
Shackled to a vision of a ‘glorious past’: Russian president Vladimir Putin celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day, February 23 2024.
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The Russian president still insists that Ukraine has been taken over by hostile pro-western elites over the past decade.
Satellite radar data shows the complete destruction of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
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Satellite photography of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut shows block after block of destroyed buildings. Satellite radar provides a different view – a systematic look at the destruction of the whole city.
A civilian hospital building in Donetsk, Ukraine, after a Russian strike in February 2024.
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Western military support for Ukraine is more important than ever.
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The erasure of Ukrainian nationhood in occupied territories and frequent denial of Ukraine’s right to exist is evidence the Russian invasion has been genocidal in nature.
Donald Trump is having influence on US foreign policy, despite not being yet elected.
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The rest of the world is already starting to react to a possible Trump presidency, but is finding it hard to plan.
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Ukraine has fought off relentless waves of Russian attacks over the past two years, but if its Western support dries up, its resistance will be very hard to sustain.
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Ukraine is just one of a daunting number of security issues facing Nato and the west.
Died in prison: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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The opposition leader was poisoned and sent to a brutal prison camp where he is reported to have died.
Small, cheap, explosives-laden drones have become ubiquitous in the war in Ukraine.
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Drones have dominated images of the war in Ukraine, but an expert on drone warfare casts doubt on many of the grand claims made for the weapons.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
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Putin’s argument that Russia has a historic claim to Ukraine stretching back to the Middle Ages relies on some very doubtful sources.
Burnt-out cars after a Russian attack on a residential neighbourhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 10, 2024.
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With the Ukraine-Russia war entering its third year, Ukraine’s supporters must provide the right aid to the country and domestic politics cannot undermine the urgent needs of the country’s military.