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Lisa Haseldine

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Sunak and Scholz gear up for an awkward meeting in Berlin

Rishi Sunak arrived in Poland today to announce a £500 million boost in aid to Ukraine, using the trip to Warsaw to also finally put a timeline on...

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Is Georgia’s future with Europe, or Russia?

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

19.04.2024 6

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Putin's prisoner / Time is ticking to save Vladimir Kara-Murza

A year ago today, the Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years – the longest sentence handed down to a political prisoner in Russia...

17.04.2024 8

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Defence / Can conscription save Germany’s armed forces?

Could compulsory military service soon be reintroduced in Germany? Since becoming defence minister at the beginning of last year, Boris Pistorius has...

10.04.2024 5

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Russia / Why is Putin still blaming Ukraine for the Moscow terror attack?

In the fortnight since four Isis gunmen stormed Crocus City Hall in the Moscow suburbs, Vladimir Putin has done his best to dodge as much of the blame...

05.04.2024 8

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The blame game over the Moscow terror attack has begun

Who was behind last night’s terror attack in Moscow? A branch of the Islamic State terror group, Isis-K, has claimed responsibility and last night...

23.03.2024 5

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Gunmen open fire in Moscow concert hall

Just over two hours ago, gunmen opened fire at a music venue on the outskirts of Moscow in what the Russian foreign ministry has called a terrorist...

22.03.2024 10

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Putin crowns himself president of Russia again

As expected, following a three day ‘vote’, Vladimir Putin has once again crowned himself president of Russia. As of 9 a.m. Moscow time, according...

18.03.2024 2

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It’s time to declare Putin an illegitimate president

For the next three days, Russians are heading to the polls supposedly to choose the country’s next president. Except we already know, as do most...

15.03.2024 10

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Why Germans don’t want to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine

Yet again the question of whether to send arms to Ukraine is plaguing Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship. The issue was once more thrown into sharp focus...

08.03.2024 10

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'We are not afraid' / Russians gather for Navalny’s funeral

Today is a sad day for Russia. Two weeks after his death in an Arctic penal colony, Alexei Navalny, Putin’s most vociferous opponent, has been...

01.03.2024 20

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Will Navalny be given a public funeral?

Nine days after Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony, his body was finally handed over to his mother on Saturday for burial. The Russian...

26.02.2024 5

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Germany’s new anti-Ukraine party unnerving the establishment

Her party may be less than two months old, but already Sahra Wagenknecht has put a cat amongst the pigeons in Germany. She launched her eponymous...

22.02.2024 6

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Putin’s British prisoner: Vladimir Kara-Murza is languishing in a Siberian jail

Lisa Hasedline has narrated this article for you to listen to. Opposing Vladimir Putin is a lethal business. The world was reminded of this last week...

22.02.2024 9

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‘Putin killed my husband’: Navalny’s wife vows to carry on

Three days on from his death, the widow of Alexei Navalny today vowed to continue the work of her husband to bring democracy to Russia and free it...

19.02.2024 5

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Navalny’s cause of death changed to ‘sudden death syndrome’

How did Alexei Navalny die? The official version is that he collapsed after a walk in his Siberian prison. But his family are, like much of the world,...

17.02.2024 4

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In Russia, Navalny is already becoming an unperson

Newspapers across Britain and the democratic world are dominated by the news of the death – perhaps murder – of Alexei Navalny. But not so in...

17.02.2024 7

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Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Just over three years after he was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony, the Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died. The news was announced by the local...

16.02.2024 6

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Why has Vladimir Putin endorsed Joe Biden?

Who does Vladimir Putin want to win the US presidential election this autumn? Last night, the Russian president gave an unexpected answer to that...

15.02.2024 4

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Will Boris Nadezhdin be allowed to run for president against Putin?

Will the anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin be allowed to run against Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency? That’s the question Russians are...

06.02.2024 10

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The dire state of Germany’s army

Lisa Haseldine has narrated this article for you to listen to. Last year, Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, made a pledge that would have been...

25.01.2024 10

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Is the bubble bursting for the AfD?

After months of steadily climbing in the polls, could this be the moment the bubble bursts for the right-wing  party, Alternative für Deutschland...

15.01.2024 4

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Even in the Arctic Circle, Navalny remains uncowed

Alexei Navalny had a brutal December. At the start of the month the Putin critic abruptly disappeared from his prison colony in Vladimir, east of...

11.01.2024 5

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Russia’s curious reaction to Britain’s hacking allegations

That Russia’s security services have been targeting British politicians and other high-profile figures won’t come as a surprise. But the scale of...

07.12.2023 4

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Is Russia trying to flood Finland with migrants?

Against the background of the war in Ukraine, a diplomatic row is brewing between Russia and Finland. Last week, Finland announced that it would...

22.11.2023 3

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Zelensky is relying on Cameron’s support for Ukraine

Just days after returning to government as Lord Cameron, the former prime minister and new Foreign Secretary has made his first foreign visit....

16.11.2023 7

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Putin is on a mission to liken Russia to Palestine

Who is to blame for the shocking pogrom in the Dagestani city of Makhachkala, where a mob of hundreds stormed the local airport in search of Jews on...

31.10.2023 1

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Has Putin picked a side by hosting Hamas at the Kremlin?

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

27.10.2023 2

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Putin will be hoping for gifts from Xi in Beijing

In the early hours of this morning, Vladimir Putin touched down in Beijing to attend the third forum of the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) at Xi...

17.10.2023 3

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Juncker dismisses ‘corrupt’ Ukraine joining EU in near future

Just days after Ukraine’s President Zelensky declared his intention to start EU membership negotiations by the end of this year, the bloc’s former...

05.10.2023 3

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How a pro-Russia party triumphed in Slovakia’s election

The staunchly pro-Russian Robert Fico is back in power for a third time in Slovakia. Fico’s Smer party clinched at least 23 per cent of the vote...

01.10.2023 1

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The West and Russia are at war, says Sergei Lavrov

The United States and Britain are at war with Russia. So said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a UN press conference on Saturday. ‘You...

25.09.2023 6

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Olaf Scholz’s failing coalition is leaking support to the AfD

Germans are increasingly fed up with their hapless chancellor Olaf Scholz and his traffic light coalition. Just a quarter of voters believe the...

24.09.2023 5

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