To his home audience, Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Syria appears to be sound.
The Tsar Nicholas II and his son Alexei in capitivity in Tobolsk in 1917.
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Despite a fierce exchange of rhetoric over Russia’s airstrikes in Syria, it makes sense for Moscow and Washington to coordinate their military intervention.
Masterpieces from the Hermitage: The legacy of Catherine the Great is currently on show at the National Gallery of Victoria. But who, exactly was Catherine II, the Empress of Russia?
Time to reorder the flags?
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Back in 2001, a Goldman Sachs economist said Brazil, Russia, India and China would become the powerhouses of the global economy in the coming decades. Is that still in the cards?
Political goals for Russia’s gas giant.
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While the case of Lyudmila Savchuk might have highlighted a major push by the Kremlin to control online opinion, the reality on the ground does not look good for Putin.
Radioactively contaminated territory around the Mayak nuclear facility in Russia.
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The US is making common cause with Ukraine, but national security concerns are affecting the human rights of the most vulnerable trying to flee the fighting.
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko with Barack Obama in 2014.
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