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War sounds death knell for The Last Empire

This is not another pipe-sucking reassessment of Mikhail Gorbachev's failed attempt to democratise the Soviet Union thirty years ago. He wasn't actually trying to do that anyway; he was attempting to save the Soviet Union and Communism by civilising and softening the harsh Bolshevik dictatorship that had prevailed since 1917.

Bangkok Post

Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World'

President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a "Russian World", a notion that conservative ideologues have used to justify intervention abroad in support of Russian-speakers.

Reuters

Russia sanctions Ben Stiller, Sean Penn after latest US measures

Russia fired its latest salvo in an escalating sanctions row over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, permanently banning 25 U.S. citizens, including actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, from entering the country.

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Gorbachev, macro-economics, and Gandhi

Concepts of free trade, financial freedom, and privatisation are not the right solutions for India’s citizens

The Hindu

Kremlin scathing over Truss but Kyiv praises Britain’s new PM

Putin aide says relations with Britain could go ‘from bad to worse’ as Ukrainian pundits welcome new ‘iron lady’

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine making ‘real gains’ but fighting is ‘close and hard’, Ben Wallace says

The Defence Secretary updated MPs on Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Germany faces a new kind of cold war this winter

Neither technical problems nor economic sanctions explain the lack of gas from Russia – Putin is deliberately making gas scarce as part of his war against Europe, says Oliver Hartwich

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Putin awards gang-leading murderer with posthumous war hero award after prison release

Ruthless gang leader and killer Ivan Neparatov, 34, who led a murderous gang was one of thousands of jail inmates recruited to fight in Russia’s bloody war in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin yet to achieve any of his strategic objectives in six-month Ukraine war, says UK

Ukrainian forces were making “real gains” in their counter-offensive in the south of the country, according to Ben Wallace

Evening Standard

Who is to blame for the cost of living crisis?

With talk of inflation set to hit 20 per cent and Britons braced for the biggest hit to living costs in a generation, Greg Marsh asks: who is to blame?

Evening Standard

Exiled Russian calls on those still in country to ‘sabotage’ Putin’s war

Mikhail Khodorkovsky claims ‘armed resistance’ may play role, although critics say mass opposition unlikely

The Guardian - UK

Gorbachev: The missed opportunity

George H.W. Bush could have helped Gorbachev in 1991. Instead, he paved the way to Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs

Salon

Britain's new PM, Truss won support with her tough image

If it's not the pictures of her standing atop a tank in a nod to Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, it's the moment when she vented her anger over cheese imports into Britain that made Liz Truss something of a household name.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin appears flushed and merry as he gives chilling message to young Russians

Warmonger Vladimir Putin rambled in front of a group of bemused young ecologists as part of a rare trip to eastern Russian - claiming that Russia, not Japan, is the "Country of the Rising Sun"

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Reuters

Kazakhstan says China's Xi to visit, in first foreign trip since pandemic

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Kazakhstan on Sept. 14, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Monday, in what would be his first foreign trip since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss's short, stilted first speech as Tory leader in full as she's named next PM

Liz Truss marked her victory as Tory leader by giving a 390-word speech lasting five minutes - with a few awkward gaps for applause. Here's what she said in full

Evening Standard

Conservative leadership race: Liz Truss voted in as new Tory Party leader

The Foreign Secretary becomes Britain’s third female PM and takes charge with the country in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis

WEKU

Meet the Chechen battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia — and fellow Chechens

While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians.

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Russia-Ukraine war: A weekly recap and look ahead (Sept. 5)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Evening Standard

Ukrainian counter-offensive making ‘verifiable progress’ against Putin’s troops in south

Ukraine’s counter-offensive against Vladimir Putin’s troops in the south of the country is making “verifiable progress,” military experts said on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Gorbachev -- the greatest democrat Russia ever had

'We all need to have perestroika," Mikhail Gorbachev would often say. The Soviet Union's last leader lived by that credo. After becoming the general secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and implementing his programme of restructuring and glasnost ("openness"), he even changed his job title, preferring to be called…

Reuters

Russian diaspora in Germany holds rare rally against sanctions

Some 2,000 mostly Russian-speaking protesters marched in the western city of Cologne on Sunday to demand Germany stop supporting Ukraine and drop sanctions it imposed after Moscow invaded its neighbour earlier this year.

The Guardian - UK

UK forces crypto exchanges to report suspected sanction breaches

New rules in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cover all notionally valuable digital assets

WEKU

At Latvia's border with Russia, the line grows long, and tempers short

European sanctions on Russia over Ukraine have caused major traffic backups along the Latvian border. And truckers can feel the mounting tension between Russia and NATO members like Latvia.

Tribune News Service

Google has a plan to stare down fake news on Ukrainian refugees in Europe

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is hoping an ad campaign can help prevent misinformation percolating about Ukrainian refugees who fled Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion from shaping public opinion.

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