Vladimir Putin
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• Trident and aircraft carriers take up large part of UK defence budget
• Very different weapons needed to combat new threats
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President uses state of the nation speech to attack west as rouble slides under pressure of economic sanctions over Ukraine
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Tatyana Gavrilova was convicted of murder in 1999. On her release from prison she spoke to MediaZona about ongoing abuse inside the country’s notorious penal system – and her determination to fight to improve the rights of inmates
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Editorial: After Vladimir Putin’s foreign adventures, it is time to reckon with harsh economic realities on the home front
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Putin says EU’s opposition scuppered project but Russian leader outlines plan to pump more gas to Turkey on visit to Ankara
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Alexander Stubb, Finnish PM, rejects suggestions that by backing Rosatom’s involvement he is bowing to Moscow
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‘There is a lot we can learn from the Americans,’ says the president, as he quashes plans to limit US blockbusters at the Russian box office. By Ben Child
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After Paris halted delivery of warships in protest over Ukraine, Moscow has hit back with a Christmas tree and €9m to the FN
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Ian Birrell: Since Russia annexed Crimea, the response of western leaders has been gesture politics of the worst kind
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Ally turned critic of Russian president is believed to be London and is accused of siphoning money from bank for personal use
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Vladimir Putin says that Russia does not pose a threat to any other country but it will safeguard its own security
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In a world swamped with cheap, unsold crude oil, the powerful petroleum cartel needs Vladimir Putin to join it as it considers trimming production
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Natalie Nougayrède: The German chancellor’s well-founded belief that Putin is a threat to Europe is shifting power relations in the region
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Kremlin’s move to create joint force with the breakaway province denounced by Georgian foreign ministry
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One of three Siberian tigers released into the wild by Russia’s president responsible for couple of deaths in China, say reports
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Repression of Crimea’s original inhabitants is the gravest conflict in Russia today, says opposition politician and historian Vladimir Ryzhkov
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Mark Wallace: Secret oil fields in the North Sea, ‘powerful forces’ conspiring against Ed Miliband, the EU to blame for Russia pouring arms into Ukraine. Enough already
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After plans to introduce casinos to Crimea, Putin approves gambling zone in Winter Olympic resort. EurasiaNet.org report
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President says he will step down by 2024, and accuses the west of trying to punish Russia for being strong and assertive
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As Vladimir Putin meets Abkhazian leaders today to sign an ‘integration agreement’, Georgia fears that Moscow is edging closer to annexing its breakaway territory. Photographer Amos Chapple has been traveling the region and offers a glimpse inside the separatist state that depends on Russia to survive
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Non-Russian publishers face ownership restrictions
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Bill Browder, a businessman and fierce critic of the Russian president, details alleged plot in US court submission
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Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina talk to the Guardian's former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding at a Guardian Live event in London
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Australia’s PM calls Ukraine president following G20 conference to set up meeting and Poroshenko accepts invitation
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The Russian president says little to John Tefft but declares the country ‘ready for practical cooperation with our American partners’
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Luke Harding: Vladimir Putin’s background as a Soviet spy means there can be little surprise at the resurgence of an aggressive surveillance state in modern Russia
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Simon Tisdall: With diplomatic tensions and mysterious military activity ratcheting up, Putin’s Russia and the west are increasingly flexing their muscles. Did the era of danger and paranoia never really go away?
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• Rhetoric and propaganda, common weapons in two very different conflicts
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Almost a century after breaking free from its giant neighbour Helsinki still follows Moscow’s every move
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Russian president denies fanning tensions and says Nato expansion in Europe has been ‘geopolitical game changer’
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When the Australian film-maker Anna Broinowski took her North Korean documentary to a ‘politics-free’ festival in St Petersburg, she found it anything but – just don’t mention Pussy Riot
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Miliband launches attack over global economy but, after listening to Julian Brazier, MPs just want to go home
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Guardian Live has been in conversation with the Russian punk duo, talking to them about art, activism and everything in between. Catch up on the conversation here
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John Kampfner: Putin is the author of his country’s misfortune, and he will probably outlast his western opponents
First thoughts The British Museum is wrong to loan the Parthenon marbles to Russia