The Latest Breaking News from Mikhail Gorbachev

Formidable foreign correspondent for the Guardian who covered major global events from the 1960s to the 90s, and commanded great respect from world leaders

The official response to the deaths of opposition figures is a sure guide to the state of repression and freedom in Russia

The German director is championing Georgian film-maker Rezo Gigineishvili’s movie about the dying days of the USSR. But, he says, he won’t be drawn into contemporary political debates

In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralised control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and autocracy, which have become mutually reinforcing symptoms of the same historical condition.

The editor of one of Russia’s independent newspapers, Dmitry Muratov, has risked his life to report on abuses of power against the odds. This is his remarkable but terrifying story

The Russian newspaper editor speaks from Moscow in an exclusive interview as a new film biography charts his defiance of the Kremlin during the war in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

Vladimir Putin vehemently opposed to neighbouring state signing up to Western military alliance

Russia's invasion was a war crime. That's no excuse for the disastrous, destructive path of endless war