Sexual violence, ethnic cleansing, and mass executions are all part of the Russian playbook. We must wake up to what its victory would mean Every weekday The Telegraph's top journalists analyse ...
President Putin has removed his long-serving defence minister Sergei Shoigu in a reshuffle, following intense speculation that the latter’s post was under threat. Shoigu, 68, will be moved to ...
Simply sign up to the Russian politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Vladimir Putin has decided to keep his prime minister and not carry out a major shake-up of his government ...
A paranoid Vladimir Putin is now said to be using bulletproof vests for many of his public appearances amid fears he could face an assassination bid linked to his war in Ukraine or from Islamic ...
In line with Russian law, the entire Russian Cabinet resigned Tuesday following Putin’s glittering inauguration in the Kremlin, and most members have been widely expected to keep their jobs ...
Ukrainian commanders are watching President Putin’s troops advancing into the Kharkiv region and calculating the motive behind his latest move. They lost more border villages on Monday morning ...
With Russia increasingly isolated from the West over the war in Ukraine, Putin's visit to China is being interpreted as a signal of Moscow's intention to deepen ties with the East.
TWO YEARS after Xi Jinping declared a “no limits” partnership with Vladimir Putin, and as the leaders meet again in Beijing on May 16th and 17th, the world is getting a good look at what China ...
Putin wants Sergei Shoigu, defence minister since 2012 and a long-standing ally, to become the secretary of Russia's powerful Security Council, replacing incumbent Nikolai Patrushev, and to also ...
As a game of thrones in Russia’s security hierarchy unfolds in the Kremlin, with Vladimir Putin ringing the changes, the rise of one man is being watched with keen interest by Western ...
Vladimir Putin’s ousted security chief Nikolai Patrushev will instead serve as the Russian president’s aide, according to a decree published by the Kremlin. The announcement came amid Putin’s ...
From 2008-2012, he was director of the department for economics and finance in the government apparatus, the same years Putin served as prime minister. In 2012, he was made economics minister.