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Russia, the world’s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It’s famous for Moscow's Bolshoi and St. Petersburg's Mariins

REUTERS / A stand has been erected at Red Square before the speech displaying the names of the regions to be annexed

Russia to formally annex four more areas of Ukraine

10:40 29/09/2022

Russia's Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday to annex four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham.

A man working at the construction site at the landfall area of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Lubmin, northeastern Germany. © TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP

Nord Stream leaks ‘not a coincidence’ – Borrell

06:16 28/09/2022

The pipeline incidents “are the result of a deliberate act,” the EU’s top diplomat said

(Danish Defence Command/The Associated Press)

Denmark says damage to Nord Stream pipeline in Baltic Sea was 'deliberate'

20:18 27/09/2022

'This is not an earthquake,' says seismologist after dual blasts

View of the Pipeline Inspection Gauge (PIG) receiving station, the Nord Stream 2 part of the landfall area in Lubmin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, taken on September 21, 2021. © John MacDougall, AFP

Gazprom announces that its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany is finished

16:40 27/09/2022

Energy giant Gazprom announced Friday that construction of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, set to double natural gas supplies from Russia to Germany by bypassing Ukraine, has been completed.

A woman talks to police officers securing area after a school shooting in Izhevsk, Russia September 26, 2022. (photo credit: REUTERS/STRINGER)

Swastika-wearing gunman kills 13 at Russian school

09:10 26/09/2022

The identity of the attacker and the motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, about 970 km (600 miles) east of Moscow, were not clear.

Russia Introduces Harsh Punishments for Wartime Desertion, Refusal to Serve

10:30 24/09/2022

The legal changes introduce the concepts of “mobilization, martial law and wartime” to the Russian Criminal Code for the first time.

SHUTTERSTOCK / Russia's president made a thinly veiled threat this week he could use nuclear weapons

Ukraine war: Putin not bluffing about nuclear weapons, EU says

10:20 24/09/2022

The EU must take Vladimir Putin's threats he could use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine seriously, the bloc's foreign policy chief has said.

FILE - Billboard reads: "With Russia forever, September 27", before referendum in Luhansk People's Republic, controlled by Russia-backed separatists, 22 September 2022AP/Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Ukraine war: Russian-occupied regions start voting in 'sham referendums'

09:35 23/09/2022

The moves followed months of conflicting signals from Moscow and separatist officials about the referendums that reflected the shifts on the battlefield.

GETTY IMAGES / Mr Berlusconi with Mr Putin during a controversial visit to the annexed-Crimean peninsula in 2015

Silvio Berlusconi: Ex-PM defends Russian war on eve of Italian election

09:12 23/09/2022

Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has defended Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, saying Russia's leader was "pushed" into the conflict.

EPA-EFE/REX / Booklets were handed out on the eve of the referendum in Luhansk

What Russia wants from the votes in occupied Ukraine

07:25 23/09/2022

Russian-backed officials in four occupied regions of Ukraine are holding self-styled referendums on joining Russia.

'Nuclear blackmail': Deconstructing Putin's latest strategic gamble in Ukraine

07:14 22/09/2022

Ukraine's recent rout of Russian forces left the Kremlin with no good options

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu speaks in televised remarks in Moscow on Wednesday. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/The Associated Press)

Putin's call to mobilize more troops to fight in Ukraine heightens tensions at home

07:11 22/09/2022

Russian president also warned West not to intervene

China — a nation with strong ties to the Russian Federation — called for a ‘ceasefire through dialogue and consultation’ following Putin’s address on Ukraine.

World leaders react to Vladimir Putin’s latest chilling speech on Ukraine conflict

14:01 21/09/2022

World leaders have reacted to Vladimir Putin’s chilling speech announcing the partial mobilisation of troops in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin. © Kremlin

Putin Dials Up Nuclear Threat, Orders Draft of Reservists to Ukraine

06:48 21/09/2022

The Russian president raised the threat of a nuclear response in the Ukraine conflict and ordered reservists to mobilize, as Moscow seeks to buttress its army’s flagging manpower and regain the offensive.

FILE PHOTO. © RIA/Konstantin Mikhalchevsky

Second Donbass republic wants vote on uniting with Russia

12:43 19/09/2022

Donetsk’s civic chamber urged the head of the republic to hold a referendum on joining Russia soon, following Lugansk’s lead

Ivan Pechorin, point man for Vladimir Putin's development of the Arctic, died after 'falling overboard' into the sea from a boat near Vladivostok Picture: East2West News

Russian newspaper editor ‘suddenly’ dies

10:26 15/09/2022

Another of Vladimir Putin’s top allies has turned up dead, with the editor-in-chief of his favourite paper “suddenly” falling ill on a business trip

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. © AFP / HENRY NICHOLLS

‘One freak after another’ – ex-Russian president on UK leaders

18:59 07/09/2022

Liz Truss will inevitably face failure and disgrace, Dmitry Medvedev believes

Russians pay respects to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as Putin snubs funeral

21:41 03/09/2022

Gorbachev was granted a public send-off but denied full state honours

LUKoil's board chairman Ravil Maganov.Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS

LUKoil Board Chairman Dead After Hospital Window Fall – Reports

06:36 01/09/2022

The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.

Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way

06:18 01/09/2022

He had not meant the Soviet Union to die like that.