Dmitry Zaks
latest news & developments
Britain’s Johnson rejects ‘unacceptable’ Brexit deal
In his debut in Parliament, the former London mayor urged EU leaders to rethink their opposition to renegotiating the deal
Trump hits out at May after leak of damning cables
London has been scrambling to stem the damage caused by the weekend release of confidential telegrams
UK parliament plots Brexit Plan B after sidelining May
Parliament is now effectively re-considering how to go about Brexit all over again
Brexit drama faces parliament judgment day
May huddled with EU leaders in Strasbourg in a bid to salvage the vision of Brexit she set out after coming to power nearly three years ago
The short, sharp shock of no-deal Brexit
MPs return from their winter breaks on Monday with little having changed since Prime Minister Theresa May aborted a December vote on a draft agreement
Russia’s fairytale World Cup run ends in tears
The men in red exceeded the wildest expectations by coming within a penalty kick of making it into the semi-finals for the first time since 1966
World Cup kicks off in Russia
The World Cup kicks off in Russia Thursday as the host nation take on Saudi Arabia in front of 80 000 people in Moscow.
Fans could be out in the cold in 2018
Temporary seats in Yekaterinburg mean some World Cup spectators will get a remote view
Hooligans brawl in spite of Putin
The organised fights of Russia’s violent football superfans are facing a clampdown by the president ahead of the World Cup
Disagreement over Ukraine truce in ‘difficult’ talks
Negotiations broke up after more than five hours on Wednesday with the pro-Russian rebels reporting little to no progress.
Ukraine mourns troops as gas talks run down to the wire
Ukraine is mourning 49 people killed when pro-Kremlin rebels downed a military plane as Kiev prepares to host talks with Moscow to avert a gas cut.
Putin sees little chance for talks with protesters
Vladimir Putin has insisted he favoured dialogue with Russia’s protest movement but said this was impossible as they had no leader nor programme.
Soviet economy legacy haunts Russia
Russia has broken the shackles of state-planned economics but remains tied to oil prices and the whims of a bloated bureaucracy.
Stranded Mars probe ‘won’t phone home’
Russia has made desperate efforts to give a vital boost to a pioneering Mars probe that now hangs in a low Earth orbit and could crash back down.
Russia to lift grain export ban
On Saturday Russia said it would lift a ban on grain exports that was imposed in August 2010 in the middle of a drought that wiped out harvests.