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Ukraine is dominating the election in Estonia, a key NATO ally. Here's what to watch

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has led the former Soviet republic since 2021. She's an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and a vocal supporter of Ukraine.

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Alan Kohler: Why the Ukraine war poses a grave and growing danger to Australia

Australia's problem is that Xi Jinping is fully invested in a 'no limits' pact with Putin. If China goes all-in, bad news for our exports.

The New Daily

Putin issues chilling threat as he claims navy is set to receive 7,000mph nuclear missiles

President Vladimir Putin revealed the Russian navy would receive hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles within weeks and the area of their deployment would depend on Russian interests.

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On Navy Day, Putin Says United States Is Main Threat to Russia

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday signed a new naval doctrine which cast the United States as Russia's main rival and set out Russia's global maritime ambitions for crucial areas such as the Arctic and in the Black Sea. Speaking on Russia's Navy Day in the former imperial capital of St…

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The Great season two review: A tale of two halves serves up sparkling dialogue and insane storylines

Catherine is back, and now she’s the Empress of Russia

Evening Standard

Is The Great a true story – and will there be a third season?

The Great is finally making a return to Channel 4 as season two premiers on UK TV – here's everything you need to know about the story behind the historical drama

Daily Mirror

How the Ukraine invasion resurrected a photographer’s 26-year time warp to the Soviet Union’s collapse

Dean Sewell’s boxes of black and white film capturing Moscow in the mid-1990s had laid untouched for a quarter of a century

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Ukraine Recap: Putin plays historian while the west closes its ranks

On day one of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, February 24, Russian troops seized Snake Island, a tiny rocky outcrop south-west of Odesa which – before the war – played host to a marine research station and a lighthouse. Resistance to the Russian assault became a propaganda coup for Ukrainians.…

The Conversation

Ukraine invasion suggests Putin is more Vladimir the Reactionary than Peter the Great

Vladimir Putin’s recent evocation of the military successes of 18th-century tsar Peter the Great against Sweden is just the latest example of his distinctive cherry-picking of imperial predecessors, Soviet rulers and religious icons to justify his invasion of Ukraine. It’s all part of the imperial nostalgia that the Russian president…

The Conversation

Putin’s propaganda is rooted in Russian history – and that's why it works

Russia’s war against Ukraine is pressing into its fifth month – despite several rounds of failed peace talks, and Western countries’ issuing severe economic sanctions against Russia.

The Conversation

From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology

Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.

Foreign Policy

Timeline: Week 16 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 16 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russian forces swarm city and bomb shelter in mirror of horror Mariupol assault

Moscow’s troops now control about 70% of the key city of Severodonetsk and are trying to cut off around 500 locals sheltering in an industrial complex - just like Mariupol

Daily Mirror

Putin’s troops ‘forced to undertake dangerous river crossings’ as Ukrainian forces blow up bridges, says UK

Vladimir Putin’s offensive in Ukraine is being slowed by Ukrainian forces blowing up bridges as they withdraw forcing his troops to undertake dangerous river crossing, British defence chiefs said on Monday.

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More bodies exhumed near Ukraine’s Bucha as battle rages for Severodonetsk

Ukrainian investigators exhumed seven bodies from makeshift graves in a forest near Bucha on Monday as Kyiv said its forces had been pushed back from the centre of Severodonetsk, the epicentre of a wider battle for control of the eastern Donbas region. All times Paris time (GMT+2).

Reuters

Amid fierce fighting, Russian forces cut last Sievierodonetsk escape route

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in a scene that echoed last month's siege of the port of Mariupol.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine latest: Southern region calls for more arms

Governor of southern Mykolaiv region says defenders are outgunned with superior Russian artillery pounding towns.

Reuters

Estonia summons Russian envoy to protest Putin remarks

Estonia on Friday summoned the Russian ambassador to condemn President Vladimir Putin's "completely unacceptable" praise for an 18th century Russian ruler who captured a city that is now Estonian.

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The Independent UK

Putin compares Ukraine invasion to Peter the Great’s conquests

Ukraine hits out at attempt to justify theft of another country’s territory

Daily Mirror

Smirking Vladimir Putin in chilling Sweden threat comparing himself to Peter The Great

During an event to commemorate the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great's birth yesterday, Vladimir Putin claimed that he was picking up where the tsar left off by invading Ukraine

Benzinga

Vladimir Putin Likens Himself To 'Peter The Great' To Justify Ukraine Invasion

President Vladimir Putin has compared himself to Former Russian Tsar Peter the Great in his latest remarks justifying the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin needed 'urgent medical care' after feeling dizzy, insider claims

Doctors advised Vladimir Putin to avoid public appearances after he felt a “sharp sickness, weakness and dizziness” as he rose from his desk during the 90-minute Russian TV show

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin advised against 'lengthy' public appearances by doctors after feeling ill

Vladimir Putin is said to have felt "sharp sickness, weakness and dizziness" as he got up from his desk after a virtual session with military chiefs and "needed urgent medical assistance"

The Independent UK

West denounces death sentences for 3 who fought for Ukraine

Ukraine and the West denounced a pro-Moscow court that sentenced two British citizens and a Moroccan to death for fighting for Ukraine

Reuters

Ukraine says it remains in control of Sievierodonetsk plant sheltering hundreds

Ukraine remains in control of the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk where hundreds of civilians are sheltering amid bitter fighting, the region's governor said on Saturday, after a Russia-backed separatist claimed 300 to 400 Ukrainian fighters were also trapped there.

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