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Kremlin planning for Putin 2024 victory already by 'trialling voter manipulation'
New techniques to control the fate of the president will be tested in regional elections this year, reports in Russia say
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Inside the Russian prison where all is not as it seems
Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin tells of his ‘surprisingly respectful and sympathetic’ experience while serving his sentence at a Izhevsk jail
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Putin's latest move reveals the Kremlin’s internal dysfunction
Russian leader should beware of constantly changing generals - it might come back to haunt him
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Ballet issued with trigger warning over its on-stage death… of a puppet
Academics at the University of Aberdeen have deemed the 1911 ballet Petrushka as being ‘potentially distressing’ to students
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UK’s golden visa scheme posed risk to national security
Review finds ‘disproportionate’ number of applicants from countries identified as at risk of money laundering and terrorist financing
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Putin now faces his own 1917-style catastrophe
Incompetence and Russia’s complete disregard for its soldiers’ lives will come back to haunt the Kremlin
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Royal Navy tracks Russian warship armed with hypersonic missiles sailing ‘close to the UK’
HMS Portland is escorting Admiral Gorshkov through the North Sea, in what it says is ‘routine activity’
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Ukraine Himars strike ‘killed civilians digging trenches for Russian army’
Survivor in Luhansk claims that at least 84 people helping Kremlin troops lost their lives in last month’s missile attack
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Russia on brink of first battlefield breakthrough in months with capture of Soledar
Ukrainian troops are battling 'waves' of attacks for control of key town and the Wagner mercenary group is claiming credit
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Russia borrows record $56bn in a month as sanctions batter Putin
Spending for the year was up more than 30pc compared to pre-war forecasts
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Missing British aid workers were ‘evacuating civilians amid Russian offensive’
Christopher Parry and Andrew Bagshaw, who were rescuing Ukrainians trapped in high-conflict areas, have not been seen since Friday
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Soaring fertiliser prices ‘causing more global hunger than Russia’s grain blockade’
Rising costs caused by the Ukraine war gas price spike could result in an extra million malnourishment deaths, new research suggests
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Putin has weaponised the Russian Orthodox Church
It is time its poisonous role in Ukraine was called out and its leaders faced international sanctions
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Putin spends Christmas in isolation as anger grows over Himars barrack strike
It comes as thousands sign a petition over a recent artillery attack on a battalion of mobilised men in a rare show of public defiance
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There are no good options in Ukraine, but the least bad is to push for Putin's total defeat
This war is hideous, but a premature peace is simply not on the cards. It is vital we continue to give the Ukrainians the support they need
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Russian commanders survived deadly barracks attack because they were at a New Year's party
The top brass were having a feast when a Ukrainian Himars strike took out hundreds of troops
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Russia disguising fuel trucks as piles of wood to avoid Ukrainian bombs
The camouflaging attempt is to counter major losses inflicted by Ukraine as Kremlin struggles to secure fuel supply lines while under attack
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Putin ally’s advice to freed Russian convicts: ‘Don’t drink too much, don’t rape women’
Yevgeny Prigozhin debriefs new front-line recruits for his Wagner mercenaries, who previously served time for violent crimes