Muhammadsobir Fayzov, a Tajik suspect in the Moscow terror attack, sits in a glass cage in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on March 24, 2024.
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News that four of the suspects in the Moscow terror attacks are Tajik will likely result in further demonization against people already facing poverty and discrimination, despite a glorious history.
The aftermath of the concert hall attack in Moscow on March 23, 2024.
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At least 137 people were killed in the Moscow attack – the latest in a a series of ISIS-K operations outside its traditional stronghold.
A Russian National Guard servicemen secures an area as a massive blaze seen over the Crocus City Hall in Moscow. An Islamic State affiliate has claimed responsibility for the attack on the concert hall that killed over 130 people.
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Ukraine has denied any involvement in the terrorist attack that killed dozens of people in Moscow, but that doesn’t mean Russia won’t try to use the event as a way to escalate its war with Ukraine.
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.
Preparations in 1972 in the Red Square to mark the 55th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
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A monumental book, newly translated into English, describes in painstaking, archeological detail, how the socialist project transformed the spaces in which Soviet citizens lived.
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-Africa Summit in 2019 in Sochi, Russia.
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The Russia-Africa summit has obvious benefits for Moscow: it conveys a perception of normalcy and the tacit approval of African elites.
Drone strikes in Moscow shocked and scared local inhabitants.
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Now Russians may start feeling the fear that has afflicted ordinary Ukrainians since February 2022.
Investigators inspect a building after a Ukrainian drone reportedly damaged an apartment building in Moscow on May 30.
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Drone strikes in Moscow are just one sign of an intensifying air war ahead of Ukraine’s offensive.
Russian security forces take measures near a damaged site following a drone strike on May 30, 2023.
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As drone strikes become a more routine part of warfare, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are used in warfare is needed, writes a former US diplomat.
Crimea: as pro-Moscow citizens celebrate nine years of Russian occupation, talk of Kyiv’s plans to retake the peninsula grows louder.
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Russia is reportedly preparing massive defences to prevent a lightning offensive to retake the occupied peninsula.
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The recent Iran-Saudi Arabia diplomatic truce brokered by Beijing heightens expectations of Xi’s visit. But the Ukraine case is vastly different.
The Russian use of ‘Z’ for victory has proved somewhat premature.
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Vladimir Putin’s planning for his ‘special military operation’ failed to take into account the Ukrainian people’s staunch defence.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past week.
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Russia appears to be under increasing pressure on all fronts.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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The global realignment triggered by the end of the Cold War and Gorbachev’s reforms ushered in a period of transition on the African continent.
Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov are intent on growing Russia’s African influence.
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Russia is trying to normalise an international order where might makes right. And democracy and respect for human rights are optional.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, widely known as Jokowi.
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Despite vague results of what the shuttle diplomacy will contribute to the world, at least the visits resemble Indonesia’s, if not Jokowi’s, own interest.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier close to the Kremlin.
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May 9 this year is “no victory day” as Putin has little to show after 74 days of aggression against Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin watchers the launch of Russia’s latest ICBM via video link in his office in the Kremlin.
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A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
International diplomacy: Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing the Swedish parliament on March 24.
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The best of the past week’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.