# moscow - Tuesday 14 June, 2022
# Moscow
# Moscow
The list names BBC director-general Tim Davie and The Times’ editor John Witherow.
# moscow - Thursday 9 June, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
The men were accused of being “mercenaries” after fighting with Ukrainian troops.
# moscow - Friday 3 June, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The sombre milestone came as Kyiv announced Moscow was now in control of a fifth of Ukrainian territory.
# moscow - Tuesday 24 May, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
The new sentence will replace the one he was handed in February 2021, meaning he will remain behind bars for another eight years.
# moscow - Tuesday 17 May, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
The opposition leader had his two-and-a-half year sentence extended after he was found guilty of fraud and contempt of court in March.
# moscow - Wednesday 11 May, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Moscow -installed administration said there would be a “request to make Kherson region a full subject of the Russian Federation.”
# moscow - Monday 2 May, 2022
# Oil Embargo
# Oil Embargo
EU ministers today discussed plans for a possible oil embargo to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine.
# moscow - Tuesday 26 April, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Much of eastern Europe heavily depends on gas from Russia.
# moscow - Saturday 23 April, 2022
# UN
# UN
Ukraine has made a plea to the UN to help evacuate citizens from the city, after previous attempts failed.
# moscow - Tuesday 19 April, 2022
# Donbas
# Donbas
Russia’s defence ministry said that “high-precision air-based missiles” had hit 13 Ukrainian positions in parts of Donbas.
# moscow - Thursday 14 April, 2022
# Black Sea
# Black Sea
The guided missile cruiser Moskva had been leading Russia’s naval effort against Ukraine in the seven-week conflict.
# moscow - Friday 1 April, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
There is confusion over who is responsible for a helicopter attack on a fuel depot in the Russian town of Belgorod.
# moscow - Wednesday 30 March, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Russia’s deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin said the country would “radically, by several times reduce the military activity” around Kyiv and Chernigiv.
# moscow - Friday 18 March, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
He praised his country’s forces at the rally to mark the eighth anniversary of Russia annexing the Crimea from Ukraine.
# moscow - Tuesday 15 March, 2022
# Marina Ovsyannikova
# Marina Ovsyannikova
Marina Ovsyannikova walked into the Channel One studio with a poster saying ‘no war’ and ‘Russians against the war’.
# moscow - Saturday 12 March, 2022
# Russia
# Russia
Earlier Ukraine’s foreign ministry said a mosque sheltering 80 civilians was shelled in Mariupol.
# moscow - Friday 25 February, 2022
# Dawn Sturgess
# Dawn Sturgess
Dawn Sturgess died in 2018 after being inadvertently exposed to the nerve agent on a discarded perfume bottle.
# moscow - Sunday 20 February, 2022
# Moscow
Emmanuel Macron talked with Vladimir Putin today, before calling Volodymyr Zelensky Minister Simon Coveney said that the prospect of war in Ukraine is now the expectation Joint Russian and Belarusian military drills are continuing today amid increased tension with Ukraine
# moscow - Tuesday 15 February, 2022
# Ukraine Crisis
Talks between new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place this afternoon. Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, says that if a 'real withdrawal' follows the Russian statements, it will be the beginning of a real de-escalation. Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said that there should be 'cautious optimism', but there are no signs of de-escalation on the ground.
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
President Vladimir Putin’s long-time foe is charged with fraud and contempt of court.
# moscow - Monday 14 February, 2022
# Ukraine Crisis
The US has warned that Moscow could invade Ukraine at any moment. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is visiting Kyiv for crisis talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Scholz plans to continue on to Russia to hold talks with Putin.
# moscow - Monday 7 February, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
US officials claim Russia is on track to amass a large enough force, 150,000 soldiers, for a full-scale invasion by mid-February.
# moscow - Wednesday 26 January, 2022
# Kremlin
The White House has said the risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine "remains imminent" US President Joe Biden said such a move would prompt "enormous consequences" and "change the world" Irish people have been advised to avoid non-essential travel to Ukraine
# moscow - Sunday 23 January, 2022
# Moscow
# Moscow
Liz Truss has accused Vladimir Putin of plotting to install a pro-Moscow leader as head of the government in Russia’s neighbouring country.
# moscow - Saturday 22 January, 2022
# Moscow
# Moscow
There are fears that Russia will invade Ukraine after Moscow massed tens of thousands of troops at the border.
# moscow - Sunday 9 January, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has insisted that talks will yield no progress so long as Russia has a “gun to Ukraine’s head”.
# moscow - Friday 7 January, 2022
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
High-ranking officials from the United States and Russia are set to hold talks in Geneva on Monday.
# moscow - Wednesday 29 December, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Russian authorities have in recent months mounted pressure on rights groups, media outlets and journalists, naming dozens as foreign agents.
# moscow - Monday 27 December, 2021
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Russian president has said NATO should not expand to include Ukraine.
# moscow - Saturday 19 June, 2021
# Russia
# Russia
The highly infectious Delta variant first identified in India represents nearly 90% of new cases.
# moscow - Thursday 22 April, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Many were arrested before the protests even began.
# moscow - Monday 5 April, 2021
# President For Life
# President For Life
The Russian president may stay in power until 2036.
# moscow - Wednesday 3 February, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Britain, France, Germany, the United States and the European Union denounced the ruling and called for his immediate release.
# moscow - Monday 1 February, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Navalny’s team said there was ‘overwhelming nationwide support’ for the Kremlin’s fiercest critic.
# moscow - Sunday 31 January, 2021
# Kremlin
# Kremlin
Protesters defied government warnings to rally from Vladivostok to Saint Petersburg in a second weekend of mass demonstrations.
# moscow - Sunday 24 January, 2021
# Russia
# Russia
Tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia this weekend.
# moscow - Saturday 23 January, 2021
# Moscow
# Moscow
Thousands of protesters joined in cities today to support the jailed Kremlin critic.
# moscow - Monday 18 January, 2021
# Poisoning
# Poisoning
Navalny was detained on arrival in Russia after recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany.
# moscow - Thursday 8 October, 2020
# Moscow
# Moscow
Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”.
# moscow - Saturday 5 September, 2020
# Alexei Navalny
# Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny fell ill on a flight to Moscow and is now in an induced coma in a Berlin hospital.
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