Putin's Russia
Twiggy, Malinauskas wear Russian sanction as badge of honour
Andrew Forrest said: “you are not worth talking to unless you have been sanctioned”, while the South Australian premier sent a direct message to Vladimir Putin.
- by Rob Harris
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Russia sanctions hundreds of Australians including journalists
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced it is sanctioning an additional 121 Australian citizens, including our editors, journalists and Defence officials.
‘No such convict here’: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny moved to high-security penal colony
Navalny casts President Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a dystopian state run by thieves and criminals where wrong is right and judges are corrupt representatives of a doomed elite.
- by Guy Faulconbridge
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Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine must maintain Western attention to win this war
At some point, Russia’s size, brutality and relative wealth will begin to crush the Ukrainians without ongoing Western assistance.
- by Mick Ryan
Pope criticises Russia over cruelty but says war ‘perhaps provoked’
Francis said that several months before the invasion, he met with a head of state who expressed concern that NATO’s moves towards Russia could lead to war.
- by Philip Pullella
Inside the secretive world of shipping Russia’s tainted oil
From clandestine mid-voyage transfers to turning off tanker tracking, Moscow has found ways to keep its fuel moving.
- by Louis Ashworth
‘Party like a Russian’ turns toxic at Putin’s economic forum
Vladimir Putin’s annual economic forum in St. Petersburg was always a hot ticket for tycoons eager to curry favour with the Kremlin but the invasion of Ukraine has made it a radioactive one.
Aid workers brace for disease outbreaks in battle-weary Ukraine
Australian Red Cross worker Nick Prince said damaged infrastructure has left water sources vulnerable to contamination and waterborne diseases.
- by Bianca Hall
‘Tasty and that’s it’: McDonald’s reopens in Russia with dour name
Former McDonald’s restaurants will reopen in Moscow under new ownership and a new name, “Vkusno & tochka”, which means “Tasty & that’s it”.
In Ukraine, a rapper’s angry voice speaks for a furious generation
Otoy, a Ukrainian rapper-turned-volunteer soldier, is putting the war into words and basslines, tapping out lyrics under Russian shelling on his phone.
- by John Leicester
Captured on camera: The poisonous plot to murder Alexei Navalny
A new documentary shows the Russian opposition leader tricking a confession out of the secret agents who tried to kill him almost two years ago.
- by Garry Maddox