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  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    News in-depthRussian economy
    Russia struggles to tame inflation in ‘overheating’ war economy

    Central bank holds interest rate at 21%

    Vladimir Putin is seated on the left side of a polished wooden table, facing Elvira Nabiullina
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Vladimir Putin
    Putin denies Russia was defeated in Syria

    President plays down Moscow’s military support for Assad regime and claims Kremlin ‘achieved our goals’

    Two men hold up a banner behind Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on Thursday
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Romania
    Russian election meddling ‘nearly impossible’ to prove, says Romania’s president

    Klaus Iohannis urges close co-ordination among EU leaders to combat foreign interference after Bucharest annulled vote

    Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy Kaja Kallas and European parliament President Roberta Metsola at an EU summit in Brussels
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    The vast spy agency behind Russian general’s death

    Latest strike in shadow war with Moscow led by SBU, which emerged from Soviet Union’s KGB

    Investigators stand near the scene of an explosion outside a residential apartment block in Moscow. The area is cordoned off, with several vehicles parked nearby. Two bodies are covered on the snow-covered ground,
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Moscow arrests suspect in general’s killing

    FSB says Uzbek suspect was offered $100,000 and safe passage to an EU country

    Police at the scene after Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed in an explosion in Moscow, Russia
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Justice for the victims of Assad’s atrocities in Syria

    An immediate priority is to secure evidence of crimes by the previous regime

    A man shows two ropes tied in the shape of nooses, found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Top Russian general killed in bomb blast in Moscow

    Ukraine official says Kyiv was behind assassination of Igor Kirillov, head of nuclear, chemical and biological defence forces

    Igor Kirillov
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Europe agrees insurance crackdown on Russia’s ‘dark fleet’

    Tankers carrying Russian oil must show they have adequate cover when passing through European waters

    A Russian oil tanker
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Putin threatens to lift missile restraints in warning to west

    Russian president says Moscow is being pushed to ‘a red line we can’t step back from’

    Vladimir Putin on stage
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Storm-hit Russian petroleum tankers trigger fears of fuel spills in Black Sea

    One vessel’s prow breaks off and another craft runs aground in Kerch Strait off Crimea

    A video showing the prow breaking off from the Volgodonsk 212 carrier in the Kerch Strait
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russia pulls hundreds of troops out of Damascus

    Hayat Tahrir al-Sham says it co-ordinated retreat of soldiers to Hmeimim air base with Moscow

    A Russian military convoy heads towards Hmeimim air base
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Assad dispatched $250mn of Syria’s cash to Moscow

    Central bank sent planeloads of dollars in 2018 and 2019 when dictator was indebted to the Kremlin

    Photo montage of Bashar al-Assad shaking hands with Vladimir Putin, with the background of the Kremlin skyline and a $1 bill
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Ecommerce
    China’s ecommerce merchants set up shop in Russia’s online marketplaces

    Ozon and Wildberries welcome Chinese sellers looking for new markets as sanctions hit both countries’ traders

    Employees an Ozon pick-up point in Moscow work at their desks
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    FT Magazine
    He thought a CIA-connected fixer would save him. Instead he got sanctioned

    One of only two Europeans sanctioned for trading Russian oil says he was duped by an alleged ‘conman’

  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russia appears to pull back its forces in Syria

    Satellite imagery and Ukrainian intelligence suggest activity consistent with drawdown at Moscow’s key air base

    Satellite images of Hmeimim air base
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    ‘Massive’ Russian air attack targets Ukraine’s battered energy grid

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns ‘one of the largest strikes’ since full-scale war began

    People take shelter inside an underground parking area at an apartment building during a Russian missile attack in Lviv, Ukraine
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    It’s high time to make Russia pay Premium content

    G7’s $50bn loan is no substitute for transferring blocked foreign exchange reserves to Ukraine

    A Russian flag flutters next to one of the Kremlin towers in downtown Moscow
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Ayatollah Khamenei defiant even as Iran evacuates thousands from Syria

    Over 4,000 flown home in the face of rebel victory and overthrow of ally Bashar al-Assad

    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking at a meeting in Tehran, Iran on December 11 2024
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    News in-depthRomania
    The Wagner-style mercenaries plotting unrest in Romania

    Horaţiu Potra, a former member of the French Foreign Legion, was arrested with 20 other armed men headed for Bucharest

    Palace of the People in Bucharest, plus Horaţiu Potra from video
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Russian forces stay put at key military bases in Syria

    Satellite imagery shows no signs of withdrawal from air and naval facilities

    A satellite image of Russia-operated Hmeimim air base in Latakia, Syria, on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    The Assads’ Syrian heartland casts them aside

    Allies of the ruling family have fled while coastal areas from which the regime drew support are celebrating its downfall

    Destroyed naval vessels
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Political espionage
    Bulgarian who spied for Russia in UK discussed sale of drones to Chinese contact, court told

    Old Bailey sees messages from Orlin Roussev to Jan Marsalek about selling US-made Switchblade devices

    Jan Marsalek (L) and Orlin Roussev (R)
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthSocial Media
    How Russia-backed influencers meddled in Romania’s vote

    Bucharest scrapped presidential election after ‘illegal’ social media campaign used tactics seen in Moldova poll

    Montage of Russian flag, Romanian flag, voter and TikTok logo
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthSyrian crisis
    How Bashar al-Assad’s regime crumbled

    Syria’s strongman was feted in Riyadh three weeks ago. Now he is an asylum seeker in Moscow

    An anti-government fighter stands near a defaced portrait of Bashar al-Assad in the city of Hama
  • Sunday, 8 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Assad flees Syria for Moscow as rebels seize Damascus

    Deposed leader arrives in Russian capital, according to state newswire, after regime toppled

    Cheering men walk past an arch on a Damascus street at daybreak on December 8
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