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  • US President Joe Biden is seen before giving remarks in Statuary Hall of the US Capitol on 6 January 2022 in Washington, DC. Picture: Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images/AFP

    US sanctions Russia for 'beginning' invasion of Ukraine

    US President Joe Biden announced what he called the 'first tranche' of sanctions, including steps to starve Russia of financing and target financial institutions and the country's 'elites'.

    91 days ago
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a joint press conference with the German chancellor in Kyiv on 14 February 2022. Picture: AFP

    Ukraine urges 'tough sanctions' after Putin orders troops into rebel regions

    The United States, Britain and the European Union all moved to announce new economic sanctions within hours, as European and Russian stocks tumbled and oil prices surged over news of the recognition.

    92 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council in Moscow on 21 February 2022. Picture: Alexey NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP

    Defying West, Putin orders troops to Ukraine rebel regions

    Earlier, the Kremlin leader recognised the independence of two rebel-held areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, paving the way for an operation to deploy part of the potential invasion force he has massed around the country.

    92 days ago
  • FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: AFP

    US does not believe Putin has made 'final decision' on Ukraine

    State Department spokesperson Ned Price said meanwhile that the United States has seen 'no tangible sign of de-escalation' at the Russia-Ukraine border.

    99 days ago
  • US President Joe Biden talks to reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on 19 January 2022 in Washington, DC. Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

    Biden urges Americans to leave Ukraine as fears of Russian invasion mount

    Washington-Moscow tensions are at their highest since the Cold War, with some US estimates saying some 130,000 Russian soldiers are grouped in dozens of combat brigades near the border with Ukraine.

    103 days ago
  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looks on during a session of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin on January 27, 2022, during a debate on Europe's future and Germany's G7 presidency. Stefanie LOOS / AFP

    Germany's Scholz to visit Russia on 15 February: Kremlin

    'A visit by Scholz to Moscow will take place on the 15th,' Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters, saying the two leaders will hold 'substantial' bilateral talks.

    110 days ago
  • FILE: Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and led to the founding of the Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 9 October 2021. Picture: AFP

    Xi to meet Putin as tensions rise with West

    Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial Covid-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected.

    110 days ago
  • US President Joe Biden talks to reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on 19 January 2022 in Washington, DC. Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP

    Biden battles accusations of 'weakness' against US rivals

    The Republican opposition, including its moderate fringe, have reproached Biden for ruling out preemptive sanctions against Moscow to discourage an attack on Ukraine.

    111 days ago
  • FILE: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Picture: Ronen Zvulun/AFP

    Blinken due in Kyiv to back Ukraine as Putin stares down West

    After talks last week failed to ease fears, the White House warned Tuesday that Russia was ready to attack Ukraine at 'any point'.

    126 days ago
  • US President Joe Biden speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House on 23 August 2021 in Washington, DC. Picture: Drew Angerer/AFP

    Biden tells Ukraine leader US will 'respond decisively' if Russia invades

    The show of US support for Ukraine comes days after Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin of severe consequences if Moscow launches a military invasion.

    142 days ago
  • FILE: A combination of photos of US President Joe Biden on 15 March 2021 and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 6 March 2020. Picture: Eric Baradat, Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Sputnik

    US, Russia to hold security, Ukraine talks early January in Geneva

    Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Tuesday confirmed the date and said that they will take place in Geneva, where US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met for their first summit in June.

    148 days ago
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    Russia to send virus specialists to South Africa to establish COVID-19 lab

    Russia's leader made the pledge during a telephone call with his counterpart from South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, who thanked Russia for its cooperation, the Kremlin said in a statement.

    166 days ago
  • Former British prime minister Tony Blair. Picture: AFP.

    'Pandora Papers' expose leaders' offshore millions

    Some 35 current and former leaders are featured in the latest vast trove of documents analysed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) - facing allegations ranging from corruption to money laundering and global tax avoidance.

    233 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin participates via video link in a ceremony launching a gold processing facility in Kyrgyzstan, in Moscow on 17 March 2021. Picture: Alexei Druzhinin/AFP

    Putin's party set to retain parliament majority after polls

    The vote comes in the wake of an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition this year, with Russian authorities jailing Putin's best-known domestic foe Alexei Navalny and banning his organisations as "extremist".

    248 days ago
  • This handout picture released by the Russian Emergency Ministry on 6 August 2021, shows firefighters spreading water on a fire at a Gazprom gas condensate plant near the city of Novy Urengoy in Western Siberia. This fire was reported on 5 August near the Urengoy deposit, one of the richest natural gas deposits in the world, said the Ministry of Local Emergencies in a statement. Picture: AFP

    Putin orders reinforcements to fight Siberia wildfires

    Putin ordered Russia's emergencies ministry to "increase the group for extinguishing fires" and "raise the intensity of the work of aviation" in one of Siberia's hardest-hit regions of Yakutia.

    288 days ago
  • FILE: Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel. Picture: AFP

    EU must seek 'direct contact' with Putin: Merkel

    Merkel said recent events had shown that it was not enough 'if we react to the multitude of Russian provocations in an uncoordinated manner'.

    335 days ago
  • Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on 7 May 2018 after being re-elected as president. Picture: AFP

    US-Russia relations at 'impasse' ahead of summit: Kremlin

    Putin and Biden are to meet at a villa in Geneva on Wednesday with tensions high over a long list of disputes, from cyberattacks and election meddling to human rights violations.

    344 days ago
  • US President Joe Biden speaks about lives lost to COVID-19 after death toll passed 500,000, in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, 22 February 2021. Picture: AFP

    Biden says 'looking' at Russia retaliation over cyberattack

    The ransomware attack on a US subsidiary of Brazilian-owned JBS has again prompted accusations that Russia is at least harboring cybercriminals.

    356 days ago
  • A Belarusian dog handler checks luggages off a Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS (flight number FR4978) parked on Minsk International Airport's apron in Minsk, on 23 May 2021. Picture: AFP

    Russia says Belarus flight ban 'endangers' passengers

    Belarus sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying opposition activist Roman Protasevich, 26.

    362 days ago
  • FILE: Protesters march in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in downtown Moscow on 23 January 2021. The placard with an image of the Kremlin critic reads "Freedom to Navalny!". Picture: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP

    Russia says Navalny to be transferred to prison hospital

    He was thrown behind bars in February for more than two years on old embezzlement charges, just weeks after he returned to Moscow from Germany where he had been recuperating from a near-fatal poisoning attack.

    401 days ago
  • FILE: A combination of photos of US President Joe Biden on 15 March 2021 and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 6 March 2020. Picture: Eric Baradat, Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Sputnik

    Biden summit offer hailed in Moscow as win for Putin

    With indications that work was already under way for a potential meeting in Finland, Russian officials were crowing that Moscow was finally being treated with the respect it deserves.

    406 days ago
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