The Irish Times

War in Ukraine: Sixty feared dead after Russian bombing of school in Luhansk

G7 leaders to hold call with Zelenskiy in show of unity before Victory Day events in Moscow

Sun May 08 2022 - 09:44

Russian woman with family link to Stalin at the forefront of efforts to help Ukrainians in Ireland

‘We were told that Germans were always aggressors. Now we are going to be in that situation’

Mon Apr 18 2022 - 20:42

Every core element of the food supply chain is affected by the war in Ukraine

Putin has dropped a bomb on the European agricultural sector

Fri Mar 04 2022 - 15:02

Ukraine’s second city wakes to war, Daniel McLaughlin reports from Kharkiv

Kharkiv’s 1.4 million people decide whether to stay or go as Russia launches missile strikes

Thu Feb 24 2022 - 11:26

Irish economic planners will need to navigate a new international landscape

We face the prospect of developing a strategy that accounts for the EU’s ambition to affirm itself and Biden’s desire for multilateralism

Fri Feb 12 2021 - 05:06

Lenin’s tomb reopens to public as Russia emerges from lockdown

Eight activists arrested in Kremlin for protests against Putin presidential run to 2036

Thu Jul 02 2020 - 16:39

Russia opens path for Putin to retain power until 2036

Leader of 20 years supports parliament’s move to ‘reset’ term limits

Tue Mar 10 2020 - 17:57

Russia vents outrage over plan to move Soviet statue in Prague

Czech mayor is facing death threats and compared to ‘Nazi official’ over proposal

Fri Sept 13 2019 - 17:22

Eastern Ukraine's divisive political survivor unmoved by changing times

Dominant Kharkiv mayor Hennadiy Kernes secure as the old guard faces election rout

Fri Jul 12 2019 - 17:00

Hong Kong: Lennon and Lenin locked in posthumous ideological battle

‘Lennon Walls’ become violent flashpoints as well as potent symbols of resilient protest

Thu Jul 11 2019 - 17:45

The great Jeremy Corbyn Russian hat conspiracy?

‘Newsnight’ graphic shows how quickly people jump on potential bias

Fri Mar 23 2018 - 05:00

Russia pays little heed to October Revolution centenary

It’s 100 years since the Bolsheviks seized power but the Kremlin appears indifferent

Tue Nov 07 2017 - 01:00

‘My grandfather remembers sitting on Stalin’s knee’

Dublin-based woman has a remarkable connection to Russia’s October Revolution

Mon Nov 06 2017 - 21:30

Red tourism: Moscow targets Chinese as centenary of revolution nears

Visitors from China keen to experience highlights of communism across Russia

Fri Sept 22 2017 - 01:00

Promises about no hard Border ‘illusory’, says Merkel ally

CDU spokesman says UK would have to make major concessions

Tue May 30 2017 - 19:44

Politicians move to bury Lenin on centenary of revolution

Russian Communist Party rails against ‘scoundral’ authors of controversial Bill

Sat Apr 22 2017 - 01:00

Statues fall as Kiev strips out Soviet legacy

Pro-western government’s de-communisation drive resented by some Ukrainians

Fri Mar 11 2016 - 01:00

Fukushima ghost town struggles back to life

Naraha has been declared safe after 2011 nuclear disaster but progress is slow

Fri Oct 16 2015 - 02:00

Maeve Binchy, Lenin and me by John Patrick McHugh

The Maeve Binchy Travel Award 2015 winner on why he plans to chase Vladimir Lenin’s ghost on his 1,851-mile trek from Zurich to St Petersburg in 1917 and write about it

Tue Sept 22 2015 - 13:20

Giant head from Lenin statue unearthed near Berlin

Monument of Soviet revolutionary leader was torn down two years after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall

Thu Sept 10 2015 - 17:32

Russia jails Ukrainian film-maker amid international outcry

Oleg Sentsov sentenced for alleged terror plot in what critics describe as a ‘show trial’

Wed Aug 26 2015 - 01:00

Ukraine adopts controversial ‘de-communisation’ laws

Laws ban communist symbols, open KGB archives and enshrine role of wartime nationalist guerrillas

Sun May 17 2015 - 19:27

1916 Rising an event of world importance, conference told

Russian Bolsheviks and Indian nationalists among those inspired by seminal revolt

Thu Jan 22 2015 - 16:35

New Ukraine v New Russia: fighting to the death

Battle over Novoazovsk shows the two countries cannot live with each other

Sat Sept 06 2014 - 01:00

Georgian house in Rathmines for €1m

Early Victorian three to four-bedroom property has a separate coach house

Thu May 15 2014 - 00:00

Clashes and Putin visit raise tensions before Ukraine poll

Fighting in Mariupol leaves up to 20 pro-Moscow activists dead on eve of separatist vote

Sat May 10 2014 - 01:00

Divisive history at heart of Ukraine’s latest identity crisis

Letter from Kharkiv

Wed Apr 02 2014 - 01:01

Clashes over toppling of Lenin statues typify east-west tensions in Ukraine

Many in pro-Russian regions of eastern Ukraine have risen up to protect monuments to the founder of the Soviet state

Sat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00

Yanukovich’s ‘Ukrainian Disneyland’ is thrown open to the people

Mon Feb 24 2014 - 01:01

Tensions remain high in Kiev as police dismantle protest barricades

Ukrainian president backs call for talks with the opposition to end weeks of protests

Mon Dec 09 2013 - 21:35

Protesters topple Lenin statue in Ukraine

Second Sunday of protests in capital against closer union with Russia

Mon Dec 09 2013 - 01:00

Case closed: Louis Vuitton sent packing from Red Square

Installation of a giant suitcase by fashion house causes outrage among city dwellers

Thu Nov 28 2013 - 01:00

Ukrainians split over ‘gas princess’ Yulia Tymoshenko’s political future

Final act in this extended drama of trial and retribution is about to play out

Tue Nov 12 2013 - 02:17

Polyglot Dagestan speaks language of dissent as Russia struggles with its most dangerous republic

Dagestanis fear Vladimir Putin is hardening his line on the diverse republic

Mon Oct 07 2013 - 01:00