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The collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's President Vladimir Putin famously once proclaimed, was "the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century". Putin was speaking as a former Soviet apparatchik, in language calculated... [read full story]
Click auto-refresh (above the photo) for all the latest action. Email your musings to mikey.stafford@guardian.co.uk . You can keep up with all today's other fixtures with our live scores centre Rambling preamble: Afternoon all,...
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev harshly criticised Russia’s hegemonic United Russia political party for allowing dirty election practices at the party’s annual congress in St Petersburg, calling its methods ‘backwards’ and...
Evgeny Lebedev , son of London Evening Standard proprietor Alexander , talked freely while enjoying lunch with the Financial Times . Some highlights: On turning the Standard into a free paper: "It was a difficult decision, but...
Move to close loophole in compensation law denying help to Britons injured overseas removed from Queen's speech at last minute Gordon Brown made a last-minute U-turn on a promise to compensate British victims of terrorism...
