Vladimir Putin

Cold war ghosts haunt talks between Russian and North Korean dictators shunned by the West

North Korean leader’s first foreign trip since Covid pandemic sparks concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine

Country’s leaders have used the slow, specialised form of transportation for decades

Russian president claims Ukraine would use any potential halt in fighting to rearm with western help

Kim Jong-un seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing and Russia while maintaining coronavirus-era controls

Ukraine says the ‘Boiko Towers’ were retaken from Russian control ‘in a unique operation’

A tradition of linking historical progress to spiritual growth might not be fashionable, but O'Connor deeply understood its merit

Marin, who took office at 37 in 2019, led a five-party, centre-left governing coalition until April of this year and saw country join Nato

Kim Jong-un holds the whip hand in negotiations and will extract a high price if he supplies Vladimir Putin with weapons

If Putin died tomorrow, there’s no chance a democratic peacenik would replace him. The war has reshaped Russian society in ways that make autocracy even more secure

Putin to host Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday for grain export talks

Worldview: For Ukrainians, this war has been going on for nine years and most still insist there can be no compromise with Putin

The multimillionaire militia commander sparked the biggest crisis in the Russian president’s two decades in power

Kremlin rejects international inquiry into plane crash that killed senior Wagner members and mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin

Ukraine accuses Pope Francis of echoing Kremlin’s ‘imperialist propaganda’

Russia says that Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in plane crash

Yevgeny Prigozhin is the latest in a long line of those who have paid a heavy price for standing up to the president

Ukrainian president’s character is reflected in Kryvyi Rih

US president expressed lack of surprise Wagner chief killed in a plane crash

Dubliner Johnny O’Reilly graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in Russian in 1995

US report concludes that the Wagner leader’s jet was downed by onboard bomb

Prigozhin and top officers of his private military are presumed dead in the crash, which has been widely seen as an assassination

On Ukrainian Independence Day, the Ambassadors for Ukraine and for the United States jointly write: Ireland’s support for Ukraine is especially meaningful

After the Wagner coup, many speculated that the mercenary leader could be on borrowed time

Death reported by Russian state television and social media channel affiliated with Wagner group

Ilya Ponomarev, a Kyiv-based Russian opposition figure, advocates the violent overthrow of Vladimir Putin by Russian exiles in Ukraine

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa say they will consider requests from more than 20 countries to join group

Ukrainian writer ‘Grandpa Svyryd’ was fighting as a machine gunner when he was badly wounded at the frontline

Warnings of humanitarian catastrophe in mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh, a region claimed by Armenia and Azerbaijan, now Russia is no longer capable of intervening

The longer the war drags on, the harder it becomes to keep domestic attention on it in the US

Central bank increases interest rates to 12 per cent from 8.5 per cent following emergency meeting

Glorification of Russia’s role in the second World War is called a Memocracy, rule on the basis of memory

The fighter jets cannot hope to provide anything approaching air superiority for Ukraine, but have potential to form the basis of a relatively up-to-date battlefield deterrent

International Criminal Court-accredited Franco-Swiss lawyer is advocating for dead civilians, children full of shrapnel and people who lost hands and feet

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Russian forces try to reclaim Kharkiv region almost a year after it was liberated by Ukrainian troops

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Kremlin critic says charges are bogus and designed to keep him out of politics

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