Jon Snow
EU energy crisis: prepare to abandon energy targets
Europe’s collective energy needs are startling, and the only available options terrifying. We are going to abandon most of our sustainable energy targets.
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Syria peace: the challenges of Geneva II
Thousands dead, millions displaced, and daily atrocities – the Geneva II talks to find peace in Syria are aimed at finding a crucial solution, but the challenges seem insurmountable.
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Rival Syrian delegations ‘to hold direct talks’ – Lavrov
Representatives of the Syrian regime and opposition have agreed to hold direct talks following discussions at an international summit in Switzerland, according to Russia’s foreign minister.
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Jon Snow
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Michael Crick
Hearing Guy Burgess’s plummy, upper-class voice for the first time
It is astonishing that no other audio recording of Guy Burgess seems to exist anywhere else in the world, even though Burgess worked for the BBC for more than five years.
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Winter Olympics: Putin warns gays to ‘leave kids alone’
Russian President Putin tries, and fails, to reassure the world about his country’s treatment of gay people by saying they are welcome to the Winter Olympics – as long as they stay away from children.
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In from the cold: new Guy Burgess voice recording
Exclusive: a recording of the voice of Guy Burgess – the most colourful and notorious of the cold war spies – has come to light thanks to a freedom of information request to the FBI.
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Olympics security fears after second Volgograd blast
A bomb strikes a bus in the Russian city of Volgograd, one day after 14 die in a suicide bomb at the train station. The attacks have prompted safety fears in the run-up to the Sochi winter Olympics.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Kerry and Lavrov: picking up the baton for peace in Syria
After August’s chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, prospects for peace in Syria looked remote. But then Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart, John Kerry, managed to pull the world back from the brink.
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British Greenpeace activists return to UK from Russia
Five Britons arrested in Russia as part of the Greenpeace “Arctic 30” group arrive back in Britain after being granted an amnesty.
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Pussy Riot: we are different people now
Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, recently freed from jail in Russia, tell a press conference their punk protest in a Moscow cathedral is “not too important any more”.
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Yasser Arafat ‘was not poisoned’, says Russia
Russia announces that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning – but the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow says an investigation will continue.
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Paul Mason
Snowden’s alternative Christmas message: your child will never have privacy
He’s on the run and faces jail if he returns to the USA. But from Moscow, where he’s been granted political asylum Edward Snowden has delivered a defiant message on Channel 4.
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Freed Khodorkovsky vows to stay out of Russia politics
Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky says he intends to stay out of Russian politics and will only return home if certain he can leave again, after being whisked to Germany following a decade in jail.
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Putin the ‘good Tsar’ pledges to release Khodorkovsky
A day after the Russian parliament passes an amnesty law that may see the release of both Greenpeace and Pussy Riot protestors, President Putin announces he may release a leading political opponent.
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What is happening in Ukraine? The key questions
As President Yanukovich travels to the Kremlin to talk trade deals, Kiev is awash with protesters calling for him loosen the country’s ties with Russia. Channel 4 News asks key questions on Ukraine.
