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Billionaire’s look compared to ‘a sprinkler head’ after he wears getup in a Vogue feature with his fiancee

Thirty-five years ago, more than 100,000 Armenian protesters took to the streets to convince Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that Nagorno-Karabakh – an ethnically Armenian enclave stuck geographically in the neighboring republic of Soviet Azerbaijan – ought to be joined to Armenia.

The German director is championing Georgian film-maker Rezo Gigineishvili’s movie about the dying days of the USSR. But, he says, he won’t be drawn into contemporary political debates

In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralised control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and autocracy, which have become mutually reinforcing symptoms of the same historical condition.

The editor of one of Russia’s independent newspapers, Dmitry Muratov, has risked his life to report on abuses of power against the odds. This is his remarkable but terrifying story

The Russian newspaper editor speaks from Moscow in an exclusive interview as a new film biography charts his defiance of the Kremlin during the war in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

Russia's invasion was a war crime. That's no excuse for the disastrous, destructive path of endless war

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept…

Editorial: Geopolitical fallout from the conflict in Ukraine is threatening an environmentally crucial region