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Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to western military alliance

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to western military alliance

The Independent UK

Bill Clinton calls blaming US for Ukraine war ‘the biggest load of bull’

‘I do not believe that there was anything we could have done to prevent this,’ says the 42nd US president

The Independent UK

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Vladimir Putin: The president whose obsession with Russian security may cost him dear

During two decades in power, Putin has had an ability to sense the popular mood, writes Mary Dejevsky. But in recent times his judgement has seemed less sure – and the Ukraine invasion may prove a step too far for his citizens

The Independent UK

The Power Struggle After Putin

Russia’s Inevitable Succession Crisis

Foreign Affairs

How long can Vladimir Putin hold on to power?

As the war in Ukraine drags on and sanctions start to bite, key questions are being asked. How long can President Vladimir Putin remain in power? Will he be overthrown in a palace coup, as recent rumours have suggested? And can the system of centralised rule he built outlast him?

The Conversation

Exact time Putin will 'probably' resort to nuclear weapons as former Russian minister speaks out on war

Andrei Kozyrev, who served under Vladimir Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, played down the fears that the current Russian President will unleash the country's nuclear forces imminently.

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Ex-Russian minister reveals exact time Vladimir Putin will 'probably' use nuclear weapons

Andrei Kozyrev, who served under Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, played down fears that the irrational Russian president will imminently unleash the country's nuclear arsenal

Daily Mirror

What is an oligarch? The circle of businessmen who made their wealth after the fall of the Soviet Union

Some of Russia's richest and most powerful men have been described as oligarchs. But what does the term really mean and why is the West so fascinated with them?

ABC News

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to western military alliance

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to western military alliance

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to western military alliance

The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to western military alliance

The Independent UK

Vladimir Zhirinovsky obituary

Ultra-nationalist Russian politician known for boorish behaviour but tolerated in parliament because he had no chance of power

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Vladimir Zhirinovsky, dark showman of the Russian far right

When a little known far-right politician called Vladimir Zhirinovsky claimed third place behind Boris Yeltsin in Russia's 1991 presidential election, it looked like a flash in the pan.

Al Jazeera

Putin’s Russia: From a ‘great power’ to a ‘pariah state’

Will the invasion of Ukraine prove to be the Russian president’s undoing?

Financial Times

Poison, planes and Putin: Abramovich’s race to save a fortune and stop the war

Since Ukraine was invaded, the Russian oligarch has been rushing to salvage his assets while conducting back-channel peace talks

Al Jazeera

Ukraine war: Why is Roman Abramovich trying to broker peace?

The Russian billionaire’s role in negotiations surprised some, but observers say Abramovich is a skilled middleman.

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The Independent UK

Why does Russia want to block Ukraine from joining Nato?

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to western military alliance

The Independent UK

Some prominent Russians quit jobs, refuse to support war

The resignation of Anatoly Chubais, who was President Vladimir Putin’s envoy to international organizations for sustainable development, was not the first resignation of a state official over the war with Ukraine, but it was one of the most striking

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Putin obsessed with reversing history

Earlier this month, Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated his 91st birthday in obscurity at his home near Moscow, the forgotten leader of Russia’s brief, unsuccessful move toward democracy at home and on its borders.

The Independent UK

Albright fled the Nazis, climbed to the summit of diplomacy

Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States

The Independent UK

Madeleine Albright wrote that Putin was making ‘historic error’ a month before she died

First female secretary of state writes that ‘Putin must know that a second Cold War would not necessarily go well for Russia’

The Conversation

The legacy of the Euromaidan Revolution lives on in the Ukrainian-Russian war

“Hello Dear Mark: the number of victims in Kyiv is growing every day (people are dying in the hospitals) and is already 100 … My family is OK. I just need to explain to my nearly 6 year old girl why people are flying to the sky forever and what…

The Guardian - UK

Putin adviser Anatoly Chubais quits and leaves Russia over invasion of Ukraine

The Kremlin’s climate envoy resigns from government in highest-ranking defection yet

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