How the war in Ukraine has redrawn the travel map
The war in Ukraine is having a knock-on effect for our holidays, with flight prices rising and booking patterns changing since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24….
The charities taking donations to help Ukraine refugees and those on the front line
Britons have been asking how to help following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The attack, launched on February 24, has seen more than 1 million Ukrainians flee…
Oleg Deripaska’s downfall offers a glimpse into the future for Russia’s oligarchs
In 2000 Deripaska teamed up with Abramovich when the pair merged businesses to create Rusal. It captured most of Russia’s aluminium industry at a stroke and created…
Lord Lebedev’s peerage should be investigated, insist Labour
Lord Lebedev’s peerage should be investigated by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, Labour has said, after it was claimed that Britain’s security services dropped alleged concerns about…
Vladimir Putin’s doomed bid to eradicate the truth only exposes his own vulnerability
Any Russian journalist who describes what is happening in Ukraine as either a war or an invasion will go to prison for up to 15 years. But…
Russia blocks use of Facebook and Twitter in crackdown on information
Russian citizens were on Friday facing an information blackout on the war in Ukraine after the Kremlin blocked Facebook and Twitter and passed a law threatening 15-year…
Financial armageddon looms as investors wait for Moscow’s ‘uninvestable’ stock market to reopen
Circulating Twitter is a picture of a set of china bowls hanging precariously inside a glass cabinet. The implication is that it will come crashing to the…
Property manager Graham Bonham-Carter’s accounts frozen after being accused of helping Oleg Deripaska evade sanctions
He said their complicated ownership structures, which involved companies registered in the British Virgin Islands and Cyprus, were simply designed to “mask the ultimate beneficial owner”, the…
Russian economy will be decimated by western sanctions, JP Morgan predicts
Russia faces a crushing economic recession on the scale of its 1998 financial crisis, top analysts have predicted, with savings wiped out and the currency devastated. Sanctions…
BT forced to keep working with Russia’s telecoms operator
Rostelecom is Russia’s biggest telecoms company, with its 13m broadband subscribers and 10.9m pay TV customers and generates revenues of about £2.8bn a year. BT Global provides…
The full force of international law must now be employed against Vladimir Putin
Across Europe and the free world, we are united in our belief that the unspeakable acts of aggression by Russia in Ukraine over the last ten days must not…
Five reasons to suggest ‘puffy-faced’ Putin could be seriously ill
Covid cases have soared in Russia recently, but the extraordinary efforts to keep Mr Putin in a “bubble” go back many months. Many of those entering his…
The week Vladimir Putin lost control
However, he is not down and out yet. Most analysts agree that he can still turn things around on the battlefield by returning to tried and tested…
BBC ‘blocked’ in Russia as Moscow accuses broadcaster of undermining political situation
“It’s often said truth is the first casualty of war,” Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, said as he announced the decision on Thursday. “In a conflict…
Putin, the oligarch and the Fabergé eggs on show in London
They’re the royal treasures of the former Russian empire, the magnificent imperial Easter eggs made for the Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II by the St Petersburg…
How imposing martial law would enable Vladimir Putin to crush dissent in Russia
Speculation about the measure began to swirl earlier this week as authorities began to clamp down on the few independent voices reporting Russia’s war in Ukraine. European…
Vladimir Putin’s chilling warning on Ukraine: The worst is yet to come
A senior aide to Mr Macron said Putin had said he wanted to “seize the whole of Ukraine”, dashing any hopes that he might leave the west…
Kremlin holds 36 UK taxpayer-owned satellites hostage in OneWeb stand-off
In response to Mr Kwarteng’s rejection of Russian demands, he wrote: “OK. I give you two days to think. There will be no guarantees of non-military use…
Prospect of energy embargo raises ghost of 1970s-style oil shock
About 10pc of the EU’s total energy demand is met by Russian gas, ranging from 35pc in Hungary to 0.2pc in Sweden, according to research by Capital…
Moscow’s contempt for the West comes back to bite it as the first domino falls
With further state support, possibly even full nationalisation, it is likely to survive within the confines of Russia’s borders. Yet, it is a serious first scalp for…
Boris Johnson sanctions Russian oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Igor Shuvalov
On Thursday night, the US State Department went further, imposing visa bans on 19 Russian oligarchs and dozens of their family members and close associates. The UK…
In Kyiv, babies are being born into the maw of hell
Just over a week ago, Serhii was planning Caesarean sections for his patients who were overdue. “Now I don’t know if I can walk to work without…
Vladimir Putin has lost the information war
As Russian troops encounter fierce resistance across Ukraine, the Kremlin is losing another battle, waged across mobile phones and computers around the world. These are the social…
How imposing martial law would enable Vladimir Putin to crush Russian dissent
Speculation about the measure began to swirl earlier this week as authorities began to clamp down on the few independent voices reporting Russia’s war in Ukraine. European…
Where Britons can take donations to help Ukraine refugees and those on the front line
Britons have been asking how to help following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The attack, launched on February 24, has seen more than 1 million Ukrainians flee…