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Merkel, museums and hyperventilating
This will not be a decisive moment in the David Cameron renegotiation strategy. And his critics would say the prime minister has a pretty good track record at misreading the German chancellor.
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This will not be a decisive moment in the David Cameron renegotiation strategy. And his critics would say the prime minister has a pretty good track record at misreading the German chancellor.
Found guilty of fraud by a Moscow court, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is arrested trying to get to the protest rally that he and punk rockers Pussy Riot had urged people to attend.
Vladimir Putin claims Russia only has two military bases abroad. FactCheck thinks he’s having an attack of amnesia.
Vladimir Putin is still riding high in the polls as the president who has defied the interfering west and resurrected Russia’s glory. But for how much longer?
The Russian rouble plunges further as it hits new lows, despite an emergency hike in interest rates to 17 per cent. As Russia’s economy appears to be heading for free-fall, should we care?
It’s overstating things to say Russia and the west have entered a new cold war. But one year after the Ukraine crisis began, the situation is still deeply depressing.
Fifa is in the spotlight after former FA chairman David Bernstein said European teams should snub the 2018 World Cup. But this is just the latest boycott call against world football’s governing body.
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia separatists agreed a ceasefire in September, but that hasn’t stopped fighting in eastern parts of the country.
Prime Minister David Cameron gives a bleak assessment of the global economy and warns that the eurozone could be on the brink of recession.
Geopolitical summits like the G20 are saturated in symbolism and double-meanings – so even if you’re officially shunned, you can always meet away from prying eyes.
Pussy Riot’s Nadia and Masha say Putin will “find a reason” if he wants you in jail – but that having a laugh is the best kind of protest.
Vladimir Putin has said Russia is prepared for a “catastrophic” collapse in oil prices as more European sanctions are threatened over Ukraine.
Pro-Russian rebels are holding an election to set up a separatist leadership in eastern Ukraine, but the poll has been denounced by the west as “illegitimate”.
Apple boss Tim Cook should be “banned for life” from Russia after coming out as gay and poses threats of “Ebola, Aids and gonorrhoea”, says Vitaly Milonov, one of Russia’s most prominent politicians.
The spiralling costs of severe weather events more than justify the Met Office’s massive expenditure on a new supercomputer.