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Russian President Vladimir Putin is getting ready for another term in office. As we’ve heard Russia has been vocal in it’s rebuttal of the British Government’s claims but what can we expect from Putin’s further six years in office? Matt Frei is in Moscow.
Boris Johnson has waded into the diplomatic row with Russia over the poisoning of a former spy on British soil, agreeing that the way Vladimir Putin is using the World Cup in Russia as a “PR exercise” is comparable to how Hitler used the 1936 Olympics. For their part, the Russian foreign ministry invited all…
Some commentators have accused Newsnight of altering a picture of the Labour leader to make him appear close to Russia. FactCheck investigates.
President Putin has said Russia has destroyed all its chemical weapons. In his first comments since the attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, he said that Britain’s claims about Moscow’s involvement were “nonsense”. He was speaking after celebrating his landslide victory in yesterday’s Presidential elections.
We don’t yet know whether the Salisbury attack had any impact on the re-election of Vladimir Putin but we do know that the temperature between Moscow and London keeps getting chillier. Today the Foreign Secretary claimed that Russia has been investigating ways of using nerve agents for assassination for the last decade. Boris Johnson also said…
Russian voters have been going to the polls to elect their new president today. The result seems a foregone conclusion with even one of Vladimir Putin’s main challengers admitting she hasn’t a hope of winning. Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum is in Moscow.
Moscow has announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats in response to Theresa May’s decision to expel the same number of Russian diplomats from the UK following the Salisbury nerve agent attack. Russia’s foreign ministry also announced it is shutting the British consulate in St Petersberg and the British Council which promotes cultural links. Our…
As we’ve heard the US described the UK nerve agent attack as “a breach of international law”. But Washington has also now separately imposed sanctions against 19 Russians – accusing them of interfering in the 2016 US election and cyber attacks. It’s the strongest action yet taken against Moscow by the Trump administration.
The war of words between the UK and Russia has escalated as the Prime Minister has been here in Salisbury to see for herself the aftermath of what the UK, France, Germany and the US say is the ‘first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since World War 2’. The Russians described her…
The day began in Salisbury with further searches in more crime scenes, but by mid-afternoon the drama over the attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter had gone from local to global. In the Commons, Theresa May accused Moscow of “an indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom”, giving the Kremlin until…
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has gone to the top end of the diplomatic lexicon to condemn the attack on a Russian spy and his daughter. The Prime Minister said it constituted an “unlawful use of force” and “more extensive measures” would follow. The Russian government has been given until tomorrow night to explain how a nerve agent…
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in hospital after exposure to what is believed to be a nerve agent. There’s no conclusive evidence yet to tell us who’s responsible. But this isn’t the first time that someone with links to the Kremlin has been attacked on British soil.
The UK has long been a favourite for Russian expats, oligarchs and exiles looking for a base away from Moscow for their families – and their money. While many enjoy the most exclusive postcodes and send their children to prestigious schools, an alarming number of powerful Russians here have died mysteriously in recent years. Today…
Boris Johnson told the Commons today that he is not pointing fingers, but warned that Britain will respond “robustly” if evidence of state responsibility for the Salisbury incident emerges. And in a sign of the strained relations with Moscow, the Foreign Secretary took the extraordinary step of describing Russia as a “malign and disruptive force”.…
Last year was one of the safest in aviation history. This year is already looking less promising. Today 71 people are feared dead after a plane crash in Russia. The plane from Saratov Airlines disappeared shortly after taking off from an airport in Moscow and reportedly came down near the town of Argunovo about 50…