In the absence of dispassionate investigation, proper legal process or even official regret, the suspicion of state complicity remains.
For more than a decade it has featured on the world’s maps.
The man behind the $28-billion TNK-BP deal is one of the most powerful figures of the Putin era
Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili has conceded that his party had lost an election to a coalition led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Former civilians have been quickly picking up the tactics that will make them a formidable military force. Luke Harding reports.
Outnumbered and outgunned, anti-regime guerrillas are fighting to stave off an onslaught by Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Aleppo, Syria.
The Amazigh were oppressed by Gaddafi and now face another battle for their language and culture, writes Luke Harding.
On the eve of the Euro 2012 football championships Ukraine is staring at nothing less than a full-blown PR disaster, writes Luke Harding.
An African rights body has called on a Swedish minister to resign over her role in an art event that highlighted female genital mutilation and racism.
Was it fear, was it rage – or was the ex-KGB tough guy exploring his feminine side when he wept during during his victory speech?
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/ 11 November 2011
Russian oligarchs favour British courts to sue each other over their ill-gotten gains.
The year is 2024. The world’s economic prospects have perked up a bit since the collapse of the euro.
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/ 10 December 2010
Nowhere can math the historic sweep of this post-Soviet World Cup — and the trains are great.
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/ 25 October 2010
Russia has agreed to help Venezuela build its first nuclear power station in a move likely to raise concerns.
Spy affair a deliberate attempt to undermine improved US-Russia relations, says Moscow.
The plan had been straightforward: stuff their sacks, enjoy the countryside, and then head back home to the Chechen town of Achkoi-Martan.
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/ 9 September 2009
The stark social cost of Russia’s economic crisis was exposed when new statistics revealed a 30% increase in the number of people living in poverty.
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/ 30 October 2008
For the Moscow pensioners gathered next to Karl Marx’s statue on Sunday there was, at last, something to be cheerful about.
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/ 8 September 2008
The 100 000th Land Rover Freelander 2 recently rolled off the company’s production line at Halewood on Merseyside, north west England.
Owning a car in Russia can present more problems than it solves. First there is the import duty, which pushes the cost of a top-range marque up a hefty 50% to more than R4million. Then there are the ubiquitous traffic jams in Moscow, where cars move at a sedate average of 19kph — slightly faster than in London, though, which clocks in at 18kph.
He has been dubbed Europe’s last dictator. He is known for jailing his political enemies, closing down theatre productions, and presiding — in the words of one opposition leader — over a "horrible" regime. But Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic President, has come up with a solution to overcome his pariah status.
It is already the world’s biggest country, spanning 11 time zones and stretching from Europe to the Far East. But this week Russia signalled its intention to get even bigger by announcing an audacious plan to annex a vast, 1,19-million-square-kilometre chunk of the frozen and ice-encrusted Arctic.
There are twin-packs of comfy men’s pyjamas. There are summer kaftans. And there are, of course, knickers — sold in reassuring white multi-packs. Welcome to Moscow’s Marks & Spencer, one of the chain’s newest overseas branches, and part of an ambitious expansion drive that is transforming M&S into a global brand.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Wednesday struck an optimistic note at the end of his two-day trip to India and Pakistan and said that though the situation remained dangerous a war on the subcontinent was "not inevitable".
DOUBTS remain over Myanmar military government’s intentions. Asked how bad things are these days in Myanmar (Burma), the Western diplomat gave a brief reply: "I’ve run out of ways to describe it."
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/ 26 January 2001
In a land where the cow is revered, McDonald’s burger empire confronts its greatest challenge.