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When Irina Khakamada, the femme fatale of Russia’s political opposition, decided to run against Vladimir Putin in the presidential election in March 2004, she asked a Russian…
It was one of the most ambitious projects of the Stalin era, known as the ”railway of bones”’. At least 10 people a day died during the four years of its construction, but unlike…
A £2,2-billion pipeline that will deliver a million barrels of crude oil a day to the Mediterranean Sea, and is set to become a vital gateway for central Asian energy resources…
”You get respect with this,” says Gennadi Lazuein, an aviation millionaire, as I drive his Kombat armoured tank-ette along the roads of St Petersburg. As frightened faces stare…
The history books in Russia may have to be rewritten yet again. President Vladimir Putin has ordered a review of all history textbooks after one controversial book asked students…
President Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff warned this week that Russia could break up into several different countries and proposed the creation of “super regions” to be headed…
The war has lasted for most of 10 years and, with each year that passes, Islamist separatists have had to sink to ever greater depths of brutality to get their cause noticed.…
It is enough to make Lenin turn in his mausoleum, where he lies only metres away across Red Square. A Moscow businessman has bought a large stake in GUM, the legendary Soviet-era…
Georgia’s opposition has pledged to put up a single presidential candidate for the forthcoming elections after the resignation of Eduard Shevardnadze in an attempt to shore up…
A Russian MP asked prosecutors to freeze shares in Roman Abramovich’s oil giant Sibneft last week, fuelling fears that the Kremlin-backed inquiry into another oil group, Yukos,…
Shamil knows one of two things will happen this month when he crosses from Azerbaijan to Chechnya to wage jihad: either the Russian infidels will leave his native Chechnya or he…
Suspected arms dealer Hemant Lakhani’s deal of a lifetime was doomed from the start. Posing as a buyer from Somali, an undercover FBI agent led Lakhani into an elaborate sting…
Russia yesterday began beefing up security measures around the capital after Saturday’s suicide bombings, as President Putin cancelled an overseas trip to try to deal with the…
The black sheeting looked like bin liners as paramedics yesterday tried to cover up the shredded remains of the 20 dead from the first suicide bombing to hit Moscow. Putin’s…
This week’s lavish, seven-day long party, which began on Tuesday, will portray Russia’s cultural capital at its best for its third centenary. But last week the local…
At least 14 people were reported dead in Chechnya last Wednesday when a second suicide bombing narrowly failed to kill the Moscow-backed head of the local administration. The…
One of the most popular themes on the placards of anti-war demonstrators across the US and Europe is that the looming confrontation is primarily about oil. The US and British…
Chechen gunmen shot and killed one of the hundreds of hostages being held at a Moscow theatre, Russian news media reported. A female hostage held by Chechen militants in a Moscow…
Diplomats from the ”big five” powers, which call the shots at the United Nations, are bracing themselves for a fresh round of intensive negotiations on Iraq. when the US tables…
The FBI receives many complaints about these services, but others insist ”e-mail brides” are driven by more innocent desires and simply prefer the life and manners of Western men
