Russia

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is being treated in a hospital in Berlin – where he’s said to be in a stable condition.

Vladimir Kara-Murza is vice president of the Free Russia Foundation, an organisation opposed to Vladmir Putin’s government

Doctors in Russia have said the opposition leader Alexei Navalny can be flown to Germany for treatment.

We spoke to Bill Browder, an activist and businessman who has campaigned about Russian interference in international affairs.

Boris Johnson has denied that the Government “actively avoided” looking for evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum.

We spoke to Dominic Grieve, the former chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee.

Russian spies have been targeting organisations which are trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine in an effort to steal their research, according to security services in the UK, the United States and Canada.

As cases of coronavirus begin surging in Russia, with almost 28,000 infections and 232 deaths – President Putin has announced that the annual celebration of the victory over Nazi Germany on 9 May will be postponed.

Could the impeachment inquiry in Washington end up boosting Russian efforts to undermine American democracy? 

We speak to Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, about the ongoing investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Russia in the 2016 election.

Standing before Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin the French President warned old demons are resurfacing and condemned nationalism.

“A new bit of rubbish.” That was the response of the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman to the publication of material suggesting that one of the men believed to have carried out the Novichok attack on Sergei Skripal in Salisbury was a colonel in Russia’s intelligence services.

One of the suspects in the poison attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter has been revealed as a highly-decorated, senior officer in Russia’s military intelligence unit, called Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, according to the online investigation site Bellingcat. Their report claims that Chepiga was the man who travelled to Salisbury under the name ‘Ruslan Boshirov’.

The administration has imposed fresh sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in March.

It’s been reported that the government is putting in an extradition request to Moscow for two Russian nationals suspected of the Salisbury Novichok poisoning. The move is likely to put further strain on Russian-UK relations which have been difficult ever since the attack in March.