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The new space race: Russia launches first mission to moon in almost 50 years
Despite waging war in Ukraine, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin doesn’t want to be left out of the latest space race.
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Would new North Sea oil and gas make Britain more energy independent?
The government will grant hundreds of new licences to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The initial decision was announced last year, but Mr Sunak reiterated the plan this week alongside “millions of pounds” for so-called “carbon capture and storage” technology — which the government says would help reduce…
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Moscow damaged in overnight drone attack
Moscow’s business district was attacked in the early hours of this morning by what’s believed to be at least one Ukranian drone.
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Could Prigozhin’s loyalty to family be the reason behind his halted mutiny? Expert explains.
The Belarusian defence ministry has released footage which they say shows Wagner forces in the country and training Belarusian soldiers.
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Evgenia Kara-Murza on her fight for the freedom of her husband – and Russia
One of Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics since the war in Ukraine had been the Russian political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is also a British citizen.
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Russian MP denies military targeted restaurant after at least 11 killed in missile strike on Kramatorsk pizzeria
In Russia the aftermath of the mutiny is less destructive, but ongoing, with claims sourced to the US government that at least one senior general was aware of the uprising and allowed it to happen.
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‘Russia is a corporate state with oligarchic rule’, says Russian opposition politician
We spoke to Russian opposition politician Grigory Yavlinsky, who previously stood in a presidential election against Vladimir Putin. We started by asking him what he made of Yevgeny Prigozhin effectively being given a pardon, while other peaceful opposition protesters like Alexei Navalny are serving long prison sentences.
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How Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from caterer to warlord
Yvegeny Prigozhin took advantage of first Yeltsin’s and then Putin’s Russia to rise from a St Petersburg gangster, to a Kremlin caterer, to now one of Russia’s pre-eminent warlords.
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Can the Russian leader retain his grasp on power?
Here in Ukraine, the question is will history repeat itself? The last attempted coup in Russia in 1991 was quashed, but the Soviet leader Gorbachev was gone just months later. So is Putin now a President without a prayer?
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Russia in turmoil in the wake of mutiny
Here in Ukraine the battle against Russian forces goes on remorselessly. But in Russia it’s the reverberations of yesterday’s extraordinary events that are still being felt. President Putin is reported to have spoken again on the phone to President Lukashenko of neighbouring Belarus, who yesterday brokered the deal that saw Yevgeny Prigozhin order his Wagner…
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Russia: ‘Armed rebellion’ launched by Wagner
An armed mutiny, a betrayal, a knife in the back – and a visibly angry Vladimir Putin speaking after the tanks and armoured vehicles of the Wagner Group of soldiers – supposedly fighting on his behalf – seize the city of Rostov-on-Don and take control of military sites in an audacious act of rebellion. The…
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Ukraine says summer offensive well underway despite catastrophic flood
While residents of the flooded Ukranian city of Kherson call for humanitarian aid following the Kakhovka dam breach, it appears Ukrainian forces are attempting to breach Russian positions elsewhere on the frontline with growing intensity.
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UK missiles are escalating Ukraine conflict to ‘new level’, says Russian politician Evgeny Popov
We spoke to Evgeny Popov, an MP for President Putin’s United Russia party and a host of the 60 Minutes political news programme.
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‘I don’t think Erdoğan is going to be pro-immigration’ says chair of international relations at Özyeğin University
What does Erdoğan’s victory mean for Turkey’s place in the world. It was no surprise that the first leader to send his congratulations was Russian President Putin – commending his “independent foreign policy”.
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Belgorod: After incursions into Russia, we speak to Russians Partisans who say they are fighting for Ukraine
Russia’s defence ministry claims it has defeated a group of insurgents who crossed from Ukraine into the Belgorod region of Russia and launched a series of attacks.