Ilya Bogdanov had defected to Ukraine in 2014.
Mykola Gerasimyuk, former first deputy prosecutor-general of Ukraine, negotiated bribes for dropping charges against associates of Viktor Yanukovych.
Meanwhile fugitive MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko will only speak to investigators if they travel to London, where he is seeking asylum.
At the end of last week, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is to visit the Kremlin at the beginning of August. This will be Erdoğan’s first face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart since September 2015. Relations between the two countries, which had been fraying over the course […]
Just two days ahead of the Brexit vote, Russia’s state-owned Channel One news outlet spreads conspiracy theories about the murder of British MP Jo Cox.
As Russia held a classical concert to celebrate their capture of Palmyra, at least 30 civilians were killed, either by Syrian or Russian air force jets, at a refugee camp near the Turkish border.
LIVE UPDATES: The public inquiry into the assassination by radioactive polonium of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London has been published. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies. The previous issue is here. Recent Translations: –The Non-Hybrid […]
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Graham Phillips, a British freelance video journalist who has been operating for most of the last year in eastern Ukraine, and produces propaganda videos for Russian state-owned media including RT and the Ministry of Defence-owned Zvezda channel, is now back in London. This morning it was announced that Phillips’ “fundraising event,” heralded with fanfare from the […]
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. For links to individual […]
