Vladimir Putin

If we’re living in a new Darwinian age, the big powers are not having it all their own way

Russian president wants pause in conflict to mark ‘victory day’ but Zelenskiy is pushing for longer break

Country’s leading polling firm finds most Ukrainians do not support either side in the US-Iran war

YouTube influencer Fidias Panayiotou wants to upend politics in Cyprus

Vessel, worth more than $500m, crossed strait on approved route in compliance ‌with international ‌maritime ​law

US secretary of state Marco Rubio tells Fox News he thinks Iran is trying to buy more time

Though nothing compared with Ukraine’s suffering, in Russia the invasion has detonated a quieter, more insidious kind of destruction

World’s economy has withstood much chaos, but IMF forecasts make for sober reading

Too often the film feels like a prestige television series compressed into an unwieldy feature length

He showed how the international illiberal right could survive inside a liberal democratic alliance

A timely contemplation, in a series of academic essays, of the strategies of war, international relations and nuclear deterrence

Both sides reported more than 1,000 drone and shelling attacks after the 32-hour truce began on ​Saturday

We can see that Nato is in disarray

If Orbán wins and continues to act as he has been doing, EU membership should be suspended

Polls show opposition Tisza party led by Peter Magyar heading for landslide victory but outcome remains uncertain

The RN’s challenge for the next year is to bring on board the bulk of the right, the traditional right as well as their hard core far-right supporters

Moves follows proposal by Volodymyr Zelenskiy from earlier this week to obverse pause in fighting during celebration

Should he be defeated, it will be the most significant setback for the populist right in years

Antony Beevor says Rasputin was a historically important figure who accelerated the demise of the Romanov dynasty

President claims ‘new regime’ has asked for ceasefire, a claim denied by Tehran, as fighting continues in Lebanon

Napoleon Bonaparte was particular target of early satirical cartoonists

Aughinish Alumina revelations in The Irish Times came a day after Russia launched a wave of missile and drone attacks across Ukraine

Trump applying pressure on Kyiv for quick end to four-year invasion as US focuses shifts to Iran war

Evidence of Limerick-produced alumina entering Russian military supply chain ‘horrific and shocking’, says Labour’s Ivana Bacik

War in Iran has given Vladimir Putin a boost

Alumina made in Aughinish, Co Limerick is exported to smelters that sell aluminium to a trader supplying Russian arms manufacturers, an investigation has found. The project analysed confidential documents, customs data and transport records along with satellite imagery and financial records, to trace the passage of materials from Guinea and Brazil, through Ireland, and on to Russian smelters.

The Oscar-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin is a record of something totally unseen in the world outside Russia

In the infantile recent debate about the Mercosur deal, for example, politicians from all sides fell over each other to criticise an agreement profoundly in Ireland’s interests

Behind Trump’s erratic policies there is one common thread: to check China’s rise

Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

More than 19,500 children have been forcibly displaced or illegally ​deported to Russia and Belarus during Ukraine war

Oil-price rises from prolonged Middle East conflict could give much-needed boost to flagging Russian economy

It’s not just stranded tourists and discommoded influencers who have been repatriated, Eoin Hayes has returned to the Dáil

The party needs to develop grown up, logical and consistent positions on foreign policy to become a government alternative

Trump called for demonstrations against the regime and promised demonstrators support from the US. They demonstrated; they died in their thousands

Sinn Féin’s stance on the €90bn support package for Ukraine doesn’t hold up

When you think what Fifa could be, it’s sad to see what it is

Western media interest seems to have fallen off a cliff, yet the suffering continues

Latest talks come as Moscow launches fresh missile and drone attacks on Kyiv’s energy and other critical infrastructure

Shades of ‘whatever it takes’ to European financial backing for Kyiv in a war grinding into its fifth year