CDU spokesman says UK would have to make major concessions

Russian Communist Party rails against ‘scoundral’ authors of controversial Bill

Pro-western government’s de-communisation drive resented by some Ukrainians

Naraha has been declared safe after 2011 nuclear disaster but progress is slow

The Maeve Binchy Travel Award 2015 winner on why he plans to chase Vladimir Lenin’s ghost on his 1,851-mile trek from Zurich to St Petersburg in 1917 and write about it

Monument of Soviet revolutionary leader was torn down two years after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall

Oleg Sentsov sentenced for alleged terror plot in what critics describe as a ‘show trial’

Laws ban communist symbols, open KGB archives and enshrine role of wartime nationalist guerrillas

Russian Bolsheviks and Indian nationalists among those inspired by seminal revolt

Battle over Novoazovsk shows the two countries cannot live with each other

Early Victorian three to four-bedroom property has a separate coach house

Fighting in Mariupol leaves up to 20 pro-Moscow activists dead on eve of separatist vote

Letter from Kharkiv

Many in pro-Russian regions of eastern Ukraine have risen up to protect monuments to the founder of the Soviet state

Ukrainian president backs call for talks with the opposition to end weeks of protests

Second Sunday of protests in capital against closer union with Russia

Installation of a giant suitcase by fashion house causes outrage among city dwellers

Final act in this extended drama of trial and retribution is about to play out

Dagestanis fear Vladimir Putin is hardening his line on the diverse republic