Less than 24 hours after the news of Navalny's death broke, almost all traces of this news has disappeared from the country’s media.

As interest rates hit nearly 2 per cent and inflation tops 9 per cent, many Brits are feeling the pinch. But once again it seems that generation rent is worst off. Last month, my landlord hiked my...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband has condemned the Government's lack of action following his 21-day hunger strike

Kara-Murza suffers from a degenerative nerve condition called polyneuropathy, the result of two Kremlin-sanctioned poisoning attempts.

While Britain concerns itself with the General Election, Kyiv is buckling under the force of Putin’s brutal assault

Over the weekend, tens of thousands of people gathered in cities across Germany to protest against the AfD and its ideology. 

We need to reframe the narrative around the murder and abuse of women, writes Lisa Haseldine

Beryl Carr has been volunteering at the hospital since 2003

On this day in 2020, Belarus held presidential elections. Standing against the dictatorial incumbent of 26 years Alexandr Lukashenko was Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. An unlikely candidate, English...

It’s hard to overstate the impact of the bombing of the Kerch bridge. Opened four years ago to great fanfare, the 12-mile long bridge came to embody Vladimir Putin’s claim on conquered Crimea. It...

Recent data gives very strong hints that Vladimir Putin’s military call-ups have led to a large number of Russians leaving the country

Scholz’s new policy will understandably draw comparisons to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda deportation scheme in the UK.

Bukayo Saka became the youngest person ever to win the award

Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, John Swinney and Ed Davey appear on tonight’s BBC Question Time leaders' special

Over the last month, the Lib Dems have surged in the polls, predicted currently to win as many as 71 seats, a gain of 60 from 2019.

This afternoon, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz goes to China. His one-day visit to Beijing is the first by a democratic leader since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said he looked forward to the day they were reunited

Opposing Vladimir Putin is a lethal business. The world was reminded of this last week after the sudden death of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Russian authorities are blaming Navalny’s...

As Russia comes to terms with what seems to be the largest terrorist attack on its soil in recent times, Vladimir Putin has something difficult to explain. For some time, Western intelligence...

That Putin is even on the ballot is thanks to an amendment to the constitution he illegally rammed through in 2020.

For countries bordering Russia, Putin’s war on Ukraine raises a disturbing question: might they be next? A bill put forward to the Duma’s lower house on June 8 suggests Lithuania is in the country’s...

Putin gave a 9-minute televised speech – his longest yet to the Russian people.

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has angrily rejected US assurances that Kyiv had no hand in the attack.

As soon as the Wagner coup started, Ukrainian social media was full of memes of Vladimir Putin saying ‘I don’t need ammo, I need a ride’ – the inverse of Volodymyr Zelensky’s quip when tanks moved...

A West London sewage works has been pouring untreated sewage into the Thames

Not every critic of Vladimir Putin ends up in jail. It still suits Russia’s President to present his country as a democracy. Elections are occasionally held against opponents whom Putin goes on to...

As Vladimir Putin rounded off his Victory Day speech with a resounding ‘Hurrah!’ to Russia, the contrast between the celebrations of this year and last could not be starker. Putin was a president in...

The true reason Scholz is dragging his heels is one he is reluctant to admit to: month by month support for Ukraine is plummeting in Germany.

A year into the pandemic, how have the UK's up and coming bands been coping?

Since Hamas’s attack on Israel nearly three weeks ago, Russian president Vladimir Putin has been torn between who to back.

Russia’s education system is about to undergo a radical transformation. Next month, when the new academic year begins, classes will be required to teach teenagers how to assemble, handle and clean...

The British are, on the whole, rather rubbish at languages. We all know people who live up to P.G. Wodehouse’s description of the ‘shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to...

The borough has the highest rate of Covid cases in London right now

Michael Brady, 57, has had a leak in his flat since 2017

A leak from the Kremlin reveals that Russia’s regional governments have been told to update bomb shelters across the country.

The workshops were being used for the new Napoleon Bonaparte biopic

On Wednesday, Georgia’s government came closer to realising its desire to embed the country deeper within Russia’s sphere of influence.

There are questions not only about what Putin knew ahead of the attack, but also his willingness to face up to who was responsible.

Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy will forever centre around his successful, albeit far from painless, promise to open the USSR, and Russia, to the rest of the world. He brought about the end of the Cold...

Alexander Lukashenko has some awkward explaining to do to Putin after a Russian military plane was reportedly blown up last weekend.

Labour MP Rupa Huq said that after the pandemic people don't want to live in flats any more

The prime minister admitted to being at a No 10 party in May 2020

As restaurants reopen, many feel they are heading from one crisis to another

‘Handsome, rich, lucky, traitor.’ That’s how the Russian broadsheet newspaper Kommersant chose to describe the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after he launched his leadership bid. In a biographical...

The airport's third runway was initially estimated to cost £50 billion