BRICS+ wants to offset Western domination, including via 'de-dollarisation'. It certainly has grown in numbers and influence, but some potential joiners are getting cold feet.

A proposed trade route connecting Turkey and the Mediterranean with Azerbaijan through Armenia would be controlled by Russia and bypass Iran. No wonder Tehran is furious.

Russia's intervention on 30 September 2015 won it a warm water port on the Mediterranean, but the political solution that was meant to follow the fighting has not yet materialised

French President Emmanuel Macron has been accused of taking Durov hostage in a bid to gain access to private communications on Telegram

Zelensky ramped up the pressure on Washington and London this week when he called on Britain and America to make a "strong decision" by letting him use long-range missiles

Six weeks after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of acting against peace, the two men met in the Ukrainian capital

Completely trusted by the Russian president, this conscientious economist has made the job her own after 11 years in the role. Who is she, and who does she really serve?

After eye-watering sums were spent to host the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Russia was banned, first for state-sponsored doping, then for invading Ukraine. A decade on, it is still licking its wounds