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The US and Russia voted against a resolution to advance ‘a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine’.

No Vlad, too bad, so sad: Putin pulls out of Brics summit

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen will still have the chance to arrest Putin – virtually

Home boy: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will attend Brics virtually. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

Brics summit to go ahead without Vladimir Putin

Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov will lead Moscow’s delegation instead of the Russian president

Burning issue: The acts of economic sabotage this week occurred exactly two years after the June 2021 riots, and there are other echoes.

St Jacob, patron of truck burners

And of Belarus, for representing that country in Zimbabwe by offering carbon credits from a Russian forest in Siberia

Frontrunner for ANCYL leadership post embraces Ukraine sanctions

Khulekani Skhosana says the sanctions are a ‘medal of honour’

No G7, no Phala Phala, no problem

No buffalo on the menu at South Africa/Namibia gala dinner

The tide is slowly turning on uncritical pro-West reporting on issues such as Russia’s war on Ukraine (above) or Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Photo: Bulent Kilic/AFP

Prelude to an apocalyptic, dystopian scenario: Russia’s war on Ukraine

Will the West be able to summon the fortitude to oppose Tsar Putin?

Empty graves after exhumation of bodies in the mass grave created during the Russian’s occupation in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Human rights dealt a blow by 2022

New and ongoing conflicts and rise of authoritarianism undermine vision for universal human rights

Defence Minister Thandi Modise. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Government has not compromised South Africa by not choosing sides in Russia/Ukraine war, Modise insists

Defence minister justifies her visit to Moscow amid war in Ukraine

SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – 2022/07/25: Only employees can get into Ikea stores. Customers receive their orders at the checkout. The stores of the Swedish company Ikea in Russia are closing. In shopping malls, foot traffic has dropped, and some branded clothing stores of foreign companies are also closing. (Photo by Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Study shows sanctions are crippling Russia’s economy

Researchers at Yale University say the Russian economy is suffering massive damage due to Western sanctions but Moscow is downplaying the effects

Photo: Laird Forbes/Gallo Images

Unemployment rate retreats to 34.5%

But forecasters are expecting the jobless rate to stay elevated, as load-shedding and inflation take their toll

QINGDAO, CHINA – MAY 09: Aerial view of shipping containers sitting stacked at Asia’s first fully automated container terminal of Qingdao Port on May 9, 2022 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images)

Commodity prices buoy South Africa amid China’s slow growth blow

South Africa’s fate is tied to China’s, but war-related disruptions in the global energy market keep exports going

Members of the South African Russian association together with Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationals  demonstrate in Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, on February 27, 2022 against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

South Africans should not ‘take sides’ in Ukraine invasion, DIRCO tells parliament

South Africa has taken a China-like stance of “quiet diplomacy” on the Russian war on Ukraine, urging citizens not to “take sides”, the deputy minister of International Relations…

Members of the South African Russian association together with Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationals  demonstrate in Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, on February 27, 2022 against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by LUCA SOLA / AFP) (Photo by LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

Asian markets fall and oil extends rally as Ukraine war rages

The crisis comes just as uncertainty was rising owing to surging prices caused by a spike in demand for oil, tight supplies and pandemic-induced supply chain snarls, among other…

Russian president Vladimir Putin. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)

Kremlin says sanctions on Putin would be ‘destructive’

“Politically, it’s not painful, it’s destructive,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, after US President Joe Biden threatened personal measures against the Russian…

Resistance: Opposition supporters walk on Red Square to support Konstantin Kotov

Russia is not Putin, as he would have citizens  and the world believe

The president would everyone believe Russia is a democracy but his army occupies regions and opposition parties are suppressed

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump are seen before the family photo during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Reuters/Andres Martinez Casares/Pool)

Five key moments from the G20

Here are five moments from the first day of the summit

Ognjen Vukojević

Croatia assistant coach booted for ‘Glory to Ukraine’ video

Ognjen Vukojević, assistant coach and Dynamo Kiev scout, has been sent home from Russia after posting a politically sensitive video on social media.

The outlook is not rosy: Ebrahim Harvey says that the leadership of the left

Ukraine says ‘nyet’ to Soviet bubbly in commie purge

Kiev’s new law on decommunisation draws critique.

Ostracised Putin suddenly finds himself in demand

European leaders, backed by President Barack Obama, have come to an uncomfortable conclusion: they need Russia.

MH17 inquiry reportedly concludes plane shot down by Russian-made missile

An international inquiry has concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made missile, a Dutch paper reported.