The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Johnson bows out of No 10 as Truss prepares multibillion plan for energy crisis

Boris Johnson pledged his full support for successor Liz Truss as he made his final farewell from Downing Street.

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2022

Vladimir Putin’s troops struggling to maintain stocks of drones after attacks, says UK

Russian drones have been shot down while sanctions are stopping others from being repaired

Evening Standard · Sep 6, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine capturing villages near Kherson, says US; IAEA calls for security zone at Zaporizhzhia – as it happened

Ukrainian forces making ‘forward movement’ in Kherson region, says Pentagon; IAEA says it is ‘gravely concerned’ about situation at nuclear facility

The Guardian - AU · Sep 6, 2022

Australian motorists 'indirectly' fueling Russia's Ukraine invasion, CREA advocacy group claims

A new report says Australia and the US are indirectly importing supplies of Russian oil via Asian refineries, inadvertently helping to finance Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

ABC News · Sep 5, 2022

Time to Rethink America’s Nuclear Strategy

How to learn the right lessons from the Cold War.

Foreign Affairs · Sep 5, 2022

Africa’s Ukraine Dilemma

The continent is caught between Russia and the West.

Foreign Affairs · Sep 5, 2022

War sounds death knell for The Last Empire

This is not another pipe-sucking reassessment of Mikhail Gorbachev's failed attempt to democratise the Soviet Union thirty years ago. He wasn't actually trying to do that anyway; he was attempting to save the Soviet Union and Communism by civilising and softening the harsh Bolshevik dictatorship that had prevailed since 1917.

Bangkok Post · Sep 5, 2022

Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World'

President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a "Russian World", a notion that conservative ideologues have used to justify intervention abroad in support of Russian-speakers.

Reuters · Sep 5, 2022

Russia sanctions Ben Stiller, Sean Penn after latest US measures

Russia fired its latest salvo in an escalating sanctions row over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, permanently banning 25 U.S. citizens, including actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, from entering the country.

Tribune News Service · Sep 5, 2022

Gorbachev, macro-economics, and Gandhi

Concepts of free trade, financial freedom, and privatisation are not the right solutions for India’s citizens

The Hindu · Sep 5, 2022