When exiled Russian opposition campaigner Igor Rogov was accused of working for the Kremlin, his friends were shocked. Could this young activist have really been an undercover agent?• The summer issue of the Long Read magazine...
Read MoreSoon after my first visit to Ukraine four years ago, I began language lessons. It taught me more than I ever expectedAlmost as soon as I returned from my first reporting trip to Ukraine, in October 2022, I decided to start...
Read MoreRemoval of Soviet-era statues sped up when Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and since Putin’s 2022 invasion has moved at pace as Ukrainians question their identitySince 2013 the plinth at the bottom of Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in...
Read MoreAndy Burnham’s first overseas visitor will be the Ukrainian prime minister, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a show of the UK’s ‘unwavering support’ for the country. But what else do we know about our new prime minister’s foreign policy?...
Read MoreAndy Burnham’s first overseas visitor will be the Ukrainian prime minister, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a show of the UK’s ‘unwavering support’ for the country. But what else do we know about our new prime minister’s foreign policy?...
Read MoreThe Green party has its lowest share of the vote since Zack Polanski became leader, the data showI have already posted lines from Andy Burnham’s BBC interview on reforming social care (see 9.03am), making council tax fairer (see...
Read MoreNew PM implies care workers could be exempt from Home Office plan to make foreign workers wait longer until they can apply for indefinite leave to remain I have already posted lines from Andy Burnham’s BBC interview on reforming...
Read MoreLabour’s 2024 manifesto did not include any specific commitments on council tax but two models are being floatedAndy Burnham has ruled out calling an “early” general election.In his interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg,...
Read MoreDefence secretary Wes Streeting says the country will see a prime minister that ‘runs towards big and difficult issues’Good morning. Yesterday Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, told Sky News that, while Andy Burnham spent...
Read MoreUkrainian president will be first overseas visitor for new British prime ministerVolodymyr Zelenskyy will become Andy Burnham’s first overseas visitor as prime minister, in a visit that Burnham said underlined Britain’s...
Read MoreDrapatyi has long been a critic of the military’s command culture, but experts warn change could take timeThrough a haze of smoke, a lone Ukrainian armoured vehicle suddenly burst into view. The BMP-2 accelerated towards a...
Read MoreAnger, guilt, shame: the deepest unseen wound of this war is the rift between those who left and those who stayed behind“Can we reschedule?”Over the years of working with western colleagues, I had learned to accept that they...
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