How Putin Seized the Oligarchs' Billions | Martin Sixsmith

Aug 4, 2026 | “By the end of the 1990s, the oligarchs were essentially running the government.”

Former Russia correspondent at the BBC and author of 'Suing the Kremlin: The Battle for Putin’s Billions' Martin Sixsmith reveals the process undertaken by Vladimir Putin to retrieve money and power from Russia’s oligarchs.

Victory No Longer Possible for Putin, Dmitry Muratov Tells Steve Rosenberg | BBC News

August 13, 2026 | In an exclusive interview, BBC Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg sits down with Dmitry Muratov, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist.

Muratov co-founded Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper that became the flagship media outlet for independent journalism in Russia. He and his colleagues have faced threats for their work and six of the paper’s journalists were murdered, including Anna Politkovskaya, who investigated human rights abuses in Chechnya.

Soon after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, under pressure from the authorities Novaya Gazeta halted operations and its licence was subsequently revoked.

In the Novaya Gazeta offices that were raided earlier this year by police, Muratov talks to Rosenberg about public perception of Russia’s war on Ukraine, increasing repression inside the country, and the man who has ruled Russia for more than a quarter of a century – Vladimir Putin.

How Putin Seized the Oligarchs' Billions | Martin Sixsmith

Aug 4, 2026 | “By the end of the 1990s, the oligarchs were essentially running the government.”

Former Russia correspondent at the BBC and author of 'Suing the Kremlin: The Battle for Putin’s Billions' Martin Sixsmith reveals the process undertaken by Vladimir Putin to retrieve money and power from Russia’s oligarchs.

Putin Will Never Make Peace in Ukraine. Bill Browder Explains Why | World of Trouble

Jul 11, 2026 | Vladimir Putin’s growing unpopularity in Russia means he cannot afford to end the war with Ukraine as he will be lynched by his own people, the president’s greatest personal enemy in the West has warned.

Sir Bill Browder told the Independent’s World of Trouble podcast: “If he does a peace deal, he’ll lose power. If he loses power, then he’ll get strung up from a lamppost.”

The anti-corruption campaigner, who once ran the biggest investment fund in Russia, has fought against Putin for nearly two decades. His latest intervention comes days after NATO leaders met in Turkey and agreed to allow Kyiv to produce its own Patriot air defence missiles, vital in withstanding the onslaught from Moscow.

Putin has variously claimed that he ordered the invasion of Ukraine in 2014 to see off a potential threat of NATO membership for Kyiv, to save Russian speaking peoples in the east of the country, or as part of a patriotic duty to return Ukraine to Russia’s empire.

‘You Can Stop Your War’: Zelenskyy’s Open Letter to Putin – in Full

THE GUARDIAN: Russians are increasingly tired of the conflict and the time to end it is now, Ukraine’s president tells his Russian counterpart in an open letter

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an open letter to the Vladimir Putin, has called for a face-to-face meeting with the Russian president to end his war against Ukraine.

The letter sets out Zelenskyy’s view of the four-year-old conflict and says that while Ukrainians’ resilience remains intact, most Russians have grown weary of its effects and are ready for peace. … Read the open letter here » | Guardian staff | Friday, June 5, 2026

Related articles in German and French here.

Xi Says World Is At Risk of ‘Law of the Jungle’ as He Hails China-Russia Links

THE GUARDIAN: Chinese president hosts Putin in Beijing and welcomes relationship as stabilising global force

Xi Jinping said the world was at risk of regressing into the “law of the jungle” and hailed the China-Russia relationship as a stabilising global force as he hosted Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, just days after hosting Donald Trump.

The Chinese leader welcomed the Russian president with pomp and pageantry as the pair began talks in the Great Hall of the People.

Chinese soldiers stood in position as a military band played the Russian and Chinese national anthems for the leaders in central Beijing. Children waved Russian and Chinese flags and cheered: “Welcome, welcome!” in Chinese before the pair entered the Great Hall.

The scene was reminiscent of Trump’s high-profile meeting with Xi in Beijing last week, when the leaders of the world’s two largest economies discussed issues from trade and investment, to the Iran conflict and Taiwan. » | Alastair McCready in Taipei | Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Ukrainian Territory Is Not ‘On the Table’ as Putin’s Offensive Falters | Robert Fox

May 11, 2026 | “Zelenskyy is pretty sure they’re not going to do a trade over ground.”

Russia’s failure to make any land territory in the past year and its rapid loss of manpower means Putin is in no position to negotiate for territory, says defence editor for The Standard, Robert Fox.

Vladimir Putin Suggests Ukraine War Is ‘Coming to an End’

THE GUARDIAN: Russian president damns western support that has allowed Ukraine to hold out and asks for talks with Gerhard Schröder in remarks after diminished Victory Day parade

Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down – remarks that came a few hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years.

“I think that the matter is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters of the Russia-Ukraine war, Europe’s deadliest conflict since the second world war. He said he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, and that his preferred negotiating partner would be Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Putin, who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister since the last day of 1999, faces a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, left swathes of Ukraine in ruins, and drained Russia’s economy. Russia’s relations with Europe are worse than at any time since the depths of the cold war.

Russian forces have so far been unable to take the whole of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine where Kyiv’s forces have been pushed back to a line of fortress cities. Russian advances have slowed this year, though Moscow controls just under one-fifth of Ukrainian territory. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Sunday, May 10, 2026

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Putin Is Facing Growing Disenchantment among Russian Elites | Mark Galeotti

May 7, 2026 | “There is a sense that he’s really lost touch with the country.”

There is a “growing disenchantment among the Russian elites” with Putin’s war on Ukraine, says historian and director of Mayak Intelligence Mark Galeotti.

Prince Harry Delivers Message to Trump and Putin in Surprise Speech from Ukraine

Apr 23, 2026 | Prince Harry has issued a message directly to two presidents - Trump and Putin - about the war in Ukraine. He was speaking in Kyiv at the start of an unannounced visit in which he is meeting senior members of the Ukrainian military and some of the thousands of soldiers who have been seriously wounded in the conflict. …

Viktor Orbán Has Lost an Election. Vladimir Putin Has Lost a Trump Card

Steve Rosenberg reporting from Moscow.

Ist Trump ein Russischer Einfluß-Agent? "Erdrückende Indizien"

Apr 2, 2026 | Sandra Navidi hält Trump für ein Asset, einen Einfluss-Agenten, Putins. Sie nennt Angriffe auf Justiz, Medien und Fed sowie den Ausstieg aus der NATO und Ukraine als Muster.

'Something Is Going On' Russian Internet Shutdowns Expose Putin's Weak Position | Sir Bill Browder

Mar 31, 2026 | Frontline failures, oil export crises and continued clampdowns in major cities suggest 'something is going on' as Putin appears weak despite favourable conditions on the world stage, says Bill Browder, Head of the Magnitsky Justice Campaign.

You have been watching Frontline, with Kate Gerbeau, Philip Ingram and Louis Sykes, produced by Times Radio.

Damning Evidence Exposes Trump and Putin - Prof David Cay Johnston Discusses

March 12, 2026

What Is Putin's Plan after Four Years of War in Ukraine? | Global News Podcast

Feb 23, 2026 | We take a look at Russia, its leader, and its people, after four years of war in Ukraine. What is Vladimir Putin's end game? Have his talks with US President Donald Trump emboldened him? And what does the Russian public make of the conflict, as casualties rise and the economy struggles?

We speak to the BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg, one of the few Western journalists covering the Kremlin from inside the country.

From Chasing Rats to the Presidency: 3 Moments That Made Vladimir Putin - BBC World Service

Feb 19, 2026 | Before Vladimir Putin took charge of Russia over 25 years ago, he was a virtual unknown.

Today, he has become an increasingly authoritarian leader at home and whose decisions, including to invade Ukraine, have defined his reputation on the world stage.

Much of what we know about his life before the Kremlin comes from stories he repeatedly tells about himself.

From a childhood spent chasing rats to the twist of fate that drew him into politics, we explore his early years and what they can teach us about the man behind the leader.

Trump Exposed for Displaying Framed Photo with Putin on White House Wall | Sir Bill Browder

Jan 28, 2026 | Sir Bill Browder joins Maddie Hale to discuss reports the United States will only provide security guarantees to Ukraine if it gives up the Donbas to Russia, Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin offers Donald Trump a way to receive a Nobel Peace Prize and a keen-eyed reporter finds a framed photo of the US President and Vladimir Putin hanging on a wall near the West Wing.

Why Trump Sides with Putin | The David Frum Show

Jan 21, 2026 | On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum examines one of the most consequential deceptions of the Trump presidency: the insistence that grocery prices are falling when Americans know from lived experience that they are not. David explains how tariffs and trade policy are deliberately driving food costs higher, why Trump keeps lying about it, and how breaking this promise strikes at the core of the fragile trust between voters and government.

Then David is joined by Fiona Hill, a former adviser to three U.S. presidents and a key witness in Trump’s first impeachment, to analyze how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why Trump remains so drawn to strongman power. Frum and Hill discuss Putin’s long game in Ukraine, Trump’s archaic and backward worldview, and how Trump’s presidency has been a gift to Putin while steadily eroding American credibility abroad.

Finally, David closes the episode with a discussion of “Among the Believers,” by V. S. Naipaul, reflecting on the Iranian Revolution and why authoritarian regimes repeatedly fail at modernity.

Russia Issues Shock NUCLEAR Warning To U.S. After Maduro Capture from Caracas? 'Long Live Nukes'

Jan 3, 2025 | Russia’s reaction to the U.S. strike on Venezuela has taken a dramatic turn. Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Russian security official and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, issued a blistering statement condemning Washington’s actions and accusing the United States of abducting a legally elected leader. But it was Medvedev’s final message that sent shockwaves globally. Arguing that diplomacy has failed and international law is ignored, he claimed that only maximum military strength — including nuclear weapons — can protect a nation from foreign intervention. His closing words, “Long live nuclear weapons,” are now being interpreted as a veiled warning to the United States and its allies.

Donald Trump Delivers Putin's Talking Points in Sick Press Conference with Zelenskyy

Dec 29, 2025 | Jesse talks about the sick and twisted remarks from Donald Trump during last night's press conference at Mar-a-Lago with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump dutifully regurgitated Russian propaganda and talking points seemingly on command.