Dmitry Kozak

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Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits the eastern Ukrainian conflict zone: Some claim his adoption of a tougher line towards Donbas is a bid to boost his sagging ratings. Photograph: Presidential Press Service
All-out war in Donbas would herald ‘end’ for Ukraine, Kremlin says

The Kremlin has warned Ukraine that all-out war in its eastern Donbas region would be the “beginning of the end” for the country and that Russia would(...)

Russian president Vladimir Putin: Analysts say he wants to secure a political future for himself and Russia when he is constitutionally mandated to step down in 2024. Photograph: Dmitry Astakhov/Sputnik/ Government pool via AP
What Vladimir Putin’s political revamp means for Russia
  • Europe
  • January 16, 2020, 10:39

Vladimir Putin has announced the most sweeping political changes in Russia in almost three decades. The constitution will change in a way that could s(...)

Russia want to bring back their grid girls, because they are “the most beautiful”. Photograph: Getty Images
Grid girls return in Monaco as Formula One goes into a bit of revolt

Formula One is in a bit of revolt. Its new owners banned the use of grid girls in January, saying that it would no longer use female models in openin(...)

Pro-Russian activists storm the regional government headquarters in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko
Russia reacts angrily to fresh EU and US sanctions

Russia reacted in anger to fresh sanctions imposed by the EU and US yesterday, as violence flared in the eastern Ukrainian town of Luhansk. Pro-Rus(...)

The Swallow’s Nest castle, one of Crimea’s many tourist attractions, overlooking the Black Sea outside the town of Yalta. Russia is encouraging its citizens to holiday in Crimea this year. Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
Crimea: Russia must confront malaise if economy is to prosper

Nine hundred miles is a long way to go for a cabinet meeting, but Dmitry Medvedev, who led a government delegation to Crimea on Monday, was on (...)

A pair of Russian cosmonauts took an Olympic torch into open space for the first time in history today as part of the torch relay of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games.
Cosmonauts take Olympic torch on historic spacewalk
  • Europe
  • November 9, 2013, 15:20

A pair of Russian cosmonauts took an Olympic torch into open space for the first time in history today as part of the torch relay of the Sochi 2014 W(...)

A general view of the Olympic village in the mountain ski resort of Rosa Khutor, a venue for the Sochi 2014 winter Olympics, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) east from Sochi. Photograph: Reuters
The $51bn Olympics – but where has the money for Sochi 2014 gone?

What does $51 billion buy you in a Black Sea subtropical resort these days? A heap of trouble, if the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Soc(...)