Section: The United Kingdom
Donald Trump ‘being played’ by Putin, former officials say
Description Trump and Putin meet at the Apec summit in Vietnam on Saturday Credits MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Trump and Putin meet again at the APEC Summit in Vietnam on the weekend James Clapper and John Brennan say the President’s stance on …read more Source: The...
UK weather: Britain colder than EASTERN EUROPE as widespread frost plagues commuters
BRITAIN will be colder than regions in Eastern Europe on Monday as widespread frost plagues commuters. …read more Source:...
Inside a ‘troll factory’
A Russian “troll factory” is working with rebels in eastern Ukraine to discredit pro-Ukrainian elements, BBC Russian has learned. …read more Source:...
On the front line of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine
Four years since Russia incited an uprising, Europe’s focus has moved on to Brexit, Isis and migrationLast June, in the intense heat of a Ukrainian summer, four of Ludmila Brozhyk’s neighbours were sitting chatting in the sunshine. The children had stayed indoors, in the relative cool, to watch cartoons. When the mortar bomb dropped...
Alex Salmond is the perfect fit for RT – all he needs to do is be himself
The former SNP leader’s style is perfectly in tune with the Kremlin-backed broadaster’s broader goals. Alex Salmond is far from the first anti-establishment politician to have decided RT (as Russia Today has rebranded) is a good place to air his views – but he may one of the most perfectly suited to the Kremlin–backed news...
World War 3? UN ‘deeply concerned’ about Russia targeting ‘critical infrastructure’
THE UN is “deeply concerned” about Russia targeting “critical infrastructure” in Ukraine, the body has claimed. …read more Source:...
Kremlin warns of mutual damage if Ukraine cuts diplomatic ties
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a reported plan by Ukraine to cut all diplomatic ties with Russia would further deepen a crisis between the two countries and end up hurting the interests of both Ukrainians and Russians. …read more Source:...
How Russia forgot its revolution
Credits Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Russia and its leaders have a difficult relationship with Vladimir Lenin Centenary of October Revolution to pass without fanfare from Kremlin and majority of Russians One-Minute Read Tuesday, November 7, 2017 – 6:03am …read more Source: The...
Sex under siege: Ukrainian drama uncovers how war affects intimacy
The playwright Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s Bad Roads explores the brutal effects of conflict on personal relationships. Sasha Dugdale reveals the pain of translating its harrowing scenes for a new Royal Court productionWhat happens to people’s personal relationships – and, more specifically, their sexual lives – in a time of conflict?...
Ukraine lawmaker says he gave FBI information on Manafort
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