The Russian opposition is an odd bunch. While not supporting Russia's brutal all-out war against Ukraine and its people, the leaders of the so-called opposition don't want their country to lose. A ...

War brings unimaginable pain and loss, and the 21st century has seen some of the ... of Ukraine was overthrown and Ukraine's annexation of Crimea by Russia. The eastern parts of Ukraine were ...

For the last 25 years is Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative, has transformed the world for the worse with his campaign of ...

Russia would almost certainly use any 'peace deal' as opportunity to prepare for further aggression, while Crimean Tatars and ...

It began in 2014 with the unprovoked Russian annexation of Crimea and the occupation of ... is a precedent that one country in the 21st century can simply annex the territory of another, commit ...

Beset by mud, cold and relentless Russian assaults, Ukrainian troops are struggling. South of the crossroads city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s commanders are watching Russian units advance, with uncertain ...

It was only at the turn of the 18th century that Russia acquired ... The Ottoman Empire considered the annexation of Crimea a violation of the terms of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca and prepared ...

We have been consistently of that position for the last half-century; that is the international ... peaceful world order in the face of forcible annexation and dispossession.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russian President Vladimir Putin has been in power now for 25 years. The BBC’s Russia editor Steve ...

I would add only two caveats to my recommendation. The first is direct: while in Soviet century it can be difficult to separate the past from the present – the annexation of Crimea was, in fact, a ...