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The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Sept. 5)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

WEKU

Ukrainian counter-offensive making ‘verifiable progress’ against Putin’s troops in south

Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Vladimir Putin’s troops in the south of the country is making “verifiable progress,” military experts said on Monday.

Evening Standard

Gorbachev -- the greatest democrat Russia ever had

'We all need to have perestroika," Mikhail Gorbachev would often say. The Soviet Union's last leader lived by that credo. After becoming the general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and implementing his programme of restructuring and glasnost ("openness"), he even changed his job title, preferring to be called…

Bangkok Post

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Russian diaspora in Germany holds rare rally against sanctions

Some 2,000 mostly Russian-speaking protesters marched in the western city of Cologne on Sunday to demand Germany stop supporting Ukraine and drop sanctions it imposed after Moscow invaded its neighbour earlier this year.

Reuters

UK forces crypto exchanges to report suspected sanction breaches

New rules in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cover all notionally valuable digital assets

The Guardian - UK

At Latvia's border with Russia, the line grows long, and tempers short

European sanctions on Russia over Ukraine have caused major traffic backups along the Latvian border. And truckers can feel the mounting tension between Russia and NATO members like Latvia.

WEKU

Google has a plan to stare down fake news on Ukrainian refugees in Europe

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is hoping an ad campaign can help prevent misinformation percolating about Ukrainian refugees who fled Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion from shaping public opinion.

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Donald Trump praises 'smart' Xi Jinping for 'ruling China with iron fist' in odd speech

Speaking to thousands of supporters to promote two Republican candidates in Pennsylvania, Trump said unlike current President Joe Biden other foreign leaders are at "the top of the game"

Daily Mirror

Russia’s army ‘suffering from morale and disciplinary issues’ in Ukraine

A main grievance from troops is around pay, according to the Ministry of Defence

Evening Standard

Gorbachev freed my generation of eastern Europeans from the abyss. We saw a different future

The man who liberalised the Soviet Union died last week, beset by a sense that his country had been betrayed – by the west and history

The Guardian - UK

Residential areas in Mykolaiv hit, says governor; ‘morale and discipline’ problems in Russian forces, says UK – as it happened

Mykolaiv governor says Russian forces damaged homes and three hospitals in strike; UK intelligence says Russian troops hampered by problems

The Guardian - AU

Joe Biden has picked a fight with tyranny. The west must hope he wins

To counter the influence of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the US-led alliance has to show that freedom is worth fighting for

The Guardian - UK

Books of the month: From Ian McEwan’s Lessons to Terry Pratchett: A Life in Footnotes

Martin Chilton reviews six of September’s biggest new books for our monthly column

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war latest: what we know on day 193 of the invasion

Zelenskiy urges EU to prepare fresh sanctions; Russia hits multiple residential targets in Mykolaiv

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Irish Mirror

Friend of Vladimir Putin raises fears of doomsday nuclear attack on west by Russia

The situation is becoming more intense

The Independent UK

Putin skips Gorbachev’s funeral in Moscow

Mr Putin did lay flowers at Mr Gorbachev’s coffin at the hospital where he died

The Guardian - UK

Fears rise of energy crisis after Russia switches off the gas – again

Shutdown over ‘oil leak’ comes only hours after G7 nations agree to impose a price cap

Evening Standard

Ukraine’s First Lady urges Britons to keep up support despite cost of living crisis

Olena Zelenska acknowledged the ‘painful choices’ Britons are facing as she urged them to keep supporting Ukraine

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The Guardian - UK

Orlando Figes: ‘Gorbachev was a very sharp and likable person’

The award-winning historian on Putin’s cult of personality, why he loves Turgenev, and giving up on books after 20 pages

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Keeps Pipeline Shut as Gazprom, Siemens Energy Wrangle

Russia kept one of its main gas supply routes to Europe shut on Saturday, stoking fears of winter fuel shortages and spotlighting differences between Gazprom and Germany's Siemens Energy over repair work on the pipeline. Already struggling to tame soaring gas prices, European governments had expected the Nord Stream 1…

The Independent UK

Tucker Carlson advises GOP to ‘make fun’ of Lindsay Graham, not ‘emulate’ him

Sen Lindsey Graham has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine and open critic of Russia’s Vladimir Putin

The Guardian - UK

‘His was the slow way to freedom’: Russia says farewell to Mikhail Gorbachev

Putin has snubbed him, but thousands have come to see the last Soviet leader lying in state in Moscow

The Guardian - UK

EU ‘prepared to meet challenge’ if Russia fails to respect energy contracts

Comments come after Gazprom extends shutdown of gas supply through Nord Stream 1 to Germany

Radio France Internationale

Putin stays away as Russia says farewell to Soviet gravedigger Gorbachev

Thousands of Russians on Saturday paid their final respects to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, in a ceremony held in Moscow with little fanfare. Russian President Vladimir Putin was notably absent.

Axios

Gorbachev's funeral draws thousands despite Putin's absence

The ceremony was not deemed a state funeral, though it had all the makings of one.

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