Russia

We spoke to Tom Tugendhat, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and asked him if he was surprised to hear a third person is believed to be involved in the poisoning of the Skripals.

A third Russian man has been accused of involvement in the poisoning of the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in 2018.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Russia’s ruling pro-Kremlin party looks poised to keep its supermajority in parliament, after elections marred by allegations of vote rigging and fraud. 

We spoke to Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of ‘Twilight of Democracy’.

An app promoting smart voting was suddenly kicked off Google and Apple. Rivals with identical names and appearances are running against opposition candidates. State employees are allegedly being forced to turn out to vote.

We spoke to the Russian Ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, in his first British broadcast interview since the G7 summit and asked him about the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Belarus, and the US-Russia relationship.

The ministry of defence has denied claims by Russia that it fired warning shots at a Royal Navy ship in the Black Sea, near the disputed territory of Crimea.

A “frank and candid discussion” was how Vladimir Putin described today’s summit talks in Geneva with President Biden, claiming there had been no hostility between the two leaders.

Lawyers for the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say his health is deteriorating, despite being transferred to a prison hospital earlier today.

As the UK races to inoculate its own population as fast as it can, Russia is delivering its Sputnik vaccine directly all over the world. 

We spoke to Mr Navalny’s chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, who’s currently in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, for his own safety.

A court in Moscow has ordered the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to serve two and a half years in prison after ruling that he had violated the terms of his probation. 

We spoke to Anton Troianovski –  Moscow correspondent for The New York Times. 

More than 4,000 people have been arrested during mass protests in towns and cities across Russia demanding the release of the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

In Russia, police have raided various offices of the detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny and also the flat where his wife is staying. Mr Navalny returned to Moscow 10 days ago after recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent poisoning only to be arrested. An appeal against his imprisonment is due to be heard tomorrow.