Section: The United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn’s Russia stance has reopened Labour’s wounds
The Labour leader’s MPs rose to defy him and offer their support to Theresa May’s position. There is no subject that divides Jeremy Corbyn and Labour MPs more than foreign policy. Though the party is able to broadly unite around issues such as austerity, the NHS and housing, its divisions are exposed whenever geopolitics dominates....
Russia’s Putin, in home straight of election campaign, visits Crimea
THE KERCH STRAIT/SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea on Wednesday, touting his annexation of the peninsula to voters days before an election all but guaranteed to deliver him a second consecutive term in power. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Putin, in home strait of election campaign, visits Crimea
THE KERCH STRAIT (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday inspected a new bridge linking Crimea to Russia, touting his annexation of the peninsula to voters days before an election all but guaranteed to deliver him a second consecutive term in power. …read more Source:...
Leader: As the battle with Russia wages, Britain is feeling the chill of isolation
The UK, as Mr Putin knows, acts from a position of unambiguous weakness. During the Cold War, Soviet intelligence officers would remark: “Any fool can commit a murder, but it takes an artist to commit a good natural death.” Those who poisoned the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 4 March...
Ukraine hopes Salisbury poisoning serves as “wake-up call” for West
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Putin’s new Cold War
Assassination attempts, cyber-attacks, military interventions – Russia is once again playing a deadly game with the West. Yet beneath the bravado is a nation riddled with insecurities. Vladimir Putin is not one to accept criticism from the West, even when his country stands accused of attempted murder using military-grade nerve agents. Russian...
Premier League transfer news: Lionel Messi, Gareth Bale, Jamie Vardy
Description Barcelona star Lionel Messi is considered by many to be the world’s best footballer Credits Alex Caparros/Getty Images Alt Text Lionel Messi transfer news Man City Barcelona Spurs and England striker Harry Kane could be set for six weeks on the …read more Source: The...
Need for a multi-dimensional approach to corruption in Ukraine
Demonising the president misses the mark; others must shoulder their share of blame …read more Source: Financial...
How Russia Today divided Westminster
British politicians of all parties have long appeared on the Kremlin channel, now called RT. So why is it only just catching up with them? For a television channel whose weekly reach is less than that of ITVBe +1, the profile of RT (formerly Russia Today) in the UK is conspicuously high. The £310,000 it spent on an advertising campaign on...
Putin blames ‘Jews and minorities’ for US election meddling
Credits Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Vladimir Putin is set to be re-elected for a fourth term as president on Sunday Russian President says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if his citizens meddled in US vote One-Minute Read Tuesday, March 13, 2018 – 5:32am …read more Source: The...
