After the prison swap between Russia and Ukraine, the West expects Moscow to withdraw its troops from the Donbass. That will reportedly be one of the topics that the Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Moscow and Kiev exchanged 35 prisoners each on Saturday 7 September in a historic occasion that saw the 24 sailors captured in the Kerch Strait in 2018 returned to their families. Those freed by...
“Are you afraid of what could happen if the authorities find out you spoke to a journalist?” I asked the grieving father as we sat in his kitchen in the Crimean city of Bakhchysarai. “No, I’m...
Wasting no time – and equally wasting no opportunity when it came to official spectacle – Russia has gone ahead and annexed Crimea and Sevastopol. The trumpets blared, a speech clearly meant to...