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Soft toys and a jagged edge: how Russia is circling the Winter Olympics

Russia is back in love with the Games and a return to athletes competing under their own flag at LA in two years’ time seems highly likely

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

Ukraine peace talks have been little more than a mafia-style shakedown by the US and Russia

COMMENT: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been powered by lies and backed up by the US. World affairs editor Sam Kiley meets some of Putin’s Russian-speaking victims in Pavlohrad, eastern Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky calls out Trump’s ‘unfair’ treatment of his country

The Independent UK · Feb 18

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of ‘trying to drag out’ process as Ukraine talks end without breakthrough

Latest round of US-mediated peace negotiations come to close in Geneva with war set to enter its fifth year next week

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18

2 years on, Navalny's death still casts a shadow over Russia and wider Europe

Mourners in Moscow have marked two years since Russian opposition leder Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison, as a new European analysis fuels murder claims

The Independent UK · Feb 16

Alexei Navalny dart frog toxin poisoning: What we know

Epibatidine, found in the Ecuadoran dart frog, causes muscle paralysis and eventual asphyxiation. Experts have said the toxin can also be produced synthetically, instead of extracting it directly from the frog itself.

Euronews · Feb 16

Peace talks round three: Ukraine-US-Russia Geneva meeting's key topics

As Ukraine, the US and Russia are to hold another round of talks in Geneva, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow is preparing another massive strike, while the Kremlin states the territories are on the agenda in Geneva.

Euronews · Feb 16

Ukraine and Russia to meet for third round of talks as fourth anniversary of war looms

Hopes of success remain low after Trump points finger at Zelenskyy and Moscow keeps up hardline demands

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16

Expectations are low for the latest US-brokered talks between Russia and Ukraine

A Ukrainian delegation is heading to Geneva for another round of U.S.-brokered talks with Russian officials, days before next week’s fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor

The Independent UK · Feb 16

Poison, a plane crash and falling from a window: How Putin’s critics and rivals have met mysterious ends

IN FOCUS: Alexei Navalny is latest in long line of Vladimir Putin’s critics who have died in recent years. James C. Reynolds, Gustaf Kilander and Alexander Butler report

The Independent UK · Feb 16

Russian whistleblower's death in Surrey 'must be reinvestigated', friends say in wake of Navalny frog poison assassination

Friends of Alexander Perepilichny have highlighted similarities between his sudden death and that of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny

Evening Standard · Feb 16