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  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin urges generals to carry on into Donetsk after fall of Luhansk

    Russia’s president wants advance to continue as Ukrainian forces retake territory in southern Kherson region

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Russian business & finance
    Putin orders transfer of Sakhalin-2 gas project to Russian entity

    Development in which Shell, Mitsubishi and Mitsui are stakeholders is first to be nationalised since Ukraine invasion

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    Kirill Rogov
    Putin’s rupture with the west turns Russia towards China

    Beijing is emerging as the chief winner from the unfolding confrontation between Moscow and the democratic world

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Halting Ukraine war ‘only chance’ to avoid economic crisis, Hungary tells EU

    Budapest urges partners in bloc to rethink approach and promote ceasefire to avoid recession

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    FT Swamp Notes
    The west is failing to quarantine Russia Premium content

    The region is missing a big underlying reality in the global reaction to Putin’s barbarism

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Martin Herem
    Nato must show Putin it is serious about defence

    We need a credible military capability that can be rapidly deployed to any alliance member in case of attack

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Olaf Scholz says partnership with Putin’s Russia is ‘inconceivable’

    German chancellor pledges new ‘Marshall plan’ for Ukraine after trip to Kyiv and adviser’s controversial comments

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Tony Barber
    Putinism delays a reformist turn in the cycle of Russian history

    A less repressive system will surely emerge one day, but the west’s influence over political change will be limited

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Scholz aide’s comments on future links with Russia trigger dismay

    German foreign policy adviser Jens Plötner says relations with Moscow as big an issue as arms to Kyiv

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Gideon Rachman
    Farewell to Russia and to the Sinatra doctrine

    Putin has taken his country back to the imperialism, autocracy and isolation of the Soviet period

  • Sunday, 19 June, 2022
    The Henry Mance Interview
    Mikhail Khodorkovsky: ‘Putin has embarked on a route that is going to lead to his demise’

    Russia’s once-richest man, now one of its most prominent dissidents, believes regime change will happen — but only by force

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Hillary Clinton: ‘We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy’

    The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Putin claims Russia has weathered sanctions better than Europe

    Remarks contrast with data from western institutions, which estimate blow to EU has been less severe

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Russian business & finance
    Russia’s investment showcase becomes morale-boosting exercise

    This year’s St Petersburg forum is low key as Ukraine war tensions keep western delegates away

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Ivan Krastev
    Putin’s aggressive autocracy reduces Russian soft power to ashes

    The assault on Ukraine is causing a sharp cultural break with the west that may last far into the future

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    OutlookItalian politics
    Italy’s media is being roiled by rows over Russian propaganda

    While talk shows give pro-Putin voices a platform, the Italian parliament is investigating Kremlin-backed disinformation

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Rachman Review podcast26 min listen
    Putin’s energy power play

    Will the invasion of Ukraine and Europe’s decision to seek alternative supplies shrink Russia’s global power irreparably?

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Combative Merkel denies appeasing Putin over Ukraine

    Germany’s interests meant finding ‘modus vivendi’ with Russia, says ex-chancellor in first interview since leaving office

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    John Sawers
    Macron is playing a risky game on Ukraine

    His warning that Putin should not be ‘humiliated’ could lead to a premature ceasefire that locks in Russian gains

  • Friday, 3 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    ‘They break the rules of war’: Ukraine conflict fuels Russian military brutality

    Putin’s growing authoritarianism undermines the modernisation he once sought for the armed forces

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    US imposes sanctions on middlemen and yachts linked to Putin

    Businessman and cellist Sergei Roldugin among targets as Washington increases pressure on Moscow

  • Monday, 30 May, 2022
    United Arab Emirates
    Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko berths superyacht in UAE

    Boat’s presence in Ras al-Khaimah is a reminder of the Gulf state’s ambivalence towards western sanctions on Moscow

  • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Baltics attack Franco-German talks with Putin over Black Sea blockade

    Diplomatic initiatives by Paris and Berlin seen as ‘paving way for more violence’ as rift grows over best approach to end war in Ukraine

  • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    European leaders urge Putin to unblock Ukraine’s grain supplies

    Russian president says Moscow could end blockade of Odesa if sanctions are lifted

  • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
    Russian economy
    Russia raises pension and minimum wage as inflation hits economy

    Putin admits to ‘difficulties’ but says not all are linked to the war in Ukraine

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