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President Vladimir Putin will visit Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, the Kremlin has announced, as Moscow courts allies abroad despite being isolated by the West over the Ukraine conflict.

After many months of diplomatic wrangling, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was granted another lease of life at the annual ministerial council meeting last week in a messy compromise between Russia and the west. But rather than ushering in a period of renewed efforts to mend…

This blog has now closed. Read our full report on the latest developments in Gaza here and our report on a UN meeting to hear accounts of sexual violence committed by Hamas on 7 October here.

Reuters news agency says children are en route to Ukraine via Moscow, under deal brokered by Qatar

Berlin steps up assistance as Kyiv faces relentless Russian attacks, low morale at home, and splits in the EU and Nato

Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed new charges by Russian prosecutors

Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization

Russia maximises forces in response to ‘aggressive activities of the Nato bloc’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million

Activists warn this will lead to arrests and prosecutions of the already repressed LGBTQ+ community

Russia on Friday appointed notoriously pro-Kremlin maestro Valery Gergiev, a personal friend of President Vladimir Putin for decades, to lead Moscow's world famous Bolshoi Theatre.