The Big Picture Putin’s potential deal with Kim bodes ill for Indo-Pacific and beyondBoth leaders are isolated and desperate, but the North Korean dictator has far more to gain
Russia Russian investigators confirm death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in plane crashAll 10 bodies recovered from the scene of the crash have been identified following genetic testing
Comment Lucinda Creighton: Taking out key conspirator Prigozhin likely to strengthen Putin’s regimeThe Wagner leader became a marked man after his short-lived challenge to the Russian president’s power base
US US Catch-up: Trump to dodge GOP debate - but will he show at Fulton County jail? What you need to know for the week ahead in the US
Ireland would not offer condolences if Putin dies, Leo Varadkar saysThe Taoiseach was responding to a question about Ireland’s traditional neutrality and wider foreign policy in the context of its opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
EU EU sanctions against Roman Abramovich are based on fame rather than evidence, lawyer claimsAbramovich was placed on the EU sanctions list for his alleged links to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president
The Big Picture Vincent Boland: Vladimir Putin’s demise is likely to be violent and chaotic – but not anytime soon Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed rebellion may not have changed much in the short-term but it raises questions about how Russia can conduct its war in Ukraine and its involvement in other conflicts
Russia Russia retreats from the brink after armed mutiny against PutinMonday will remain a non-working day for most residents in Moscow following a ‘counter-terrorist regime’ in the capital
Russia Profile: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former hot dog sellers turned Russian rebelThe Kremlin is facing a mutiny led by the mercenary chief nicknamed ‘Putin’s chef’
Russia Putin vows to ‘defend the people’ as Wagner group stages armed rebellionThe Russian president said ‘all those who prepared the rebellion will suffer inevitable punishment’
Legal Court asked to appoint liquidators to Russian-state owned firms in $1.6bn debtHigh Court told the companies have no prospect of survival, mainly due to sanctions imposed following the invasion of Ukraine
Russia Timing of examinership application by Russian-state owned firms ‘profoundly suspicious’ - High Court judgeCourt was told the petition was brought following a decree from Vladimir Putin that the Russian state would forgive $1.5bn of the leasing firms’ debts
Russia Left stranded between Russia and a hard placeThe seeming prevarication of the far left on the invasion of Ukraine appears to be the aftermath of its erstwhile love affair with the former USSR rather than a pro-Putin stance, but it muddies the waters nevertheless
Trends Lise Hand: With continuous volatility on the global political stage, where are we headed in 2023?Amid the prospect of a 21st-century cold war, and a climate emergency, things have never felt more uncertain. But what do we know about what’s coming this year?
War in Ukraine Elaine Byrne: Putin’s reframing of the war as a moral crusade is finding an audience beyond Russia The Russian president has repositioned himself as a defender of traditional Christian values to gather sympathy from other conservative nations and groupings
War in Ukraine Lucinda Creighton: Ukraine’s allies may have to cross a military red line to end the warThe Ukrainian government has appealed to Nato to supply fighter jets to help it defeat Russia, and that is something that may have to be contemplated
War in Ukraine Ukraine: How Russia’s invasion set the EU on a new path to its eastern bordersThe war in Ukraine has caused a huge shift in global geopolitics – especially in the EU, where the bloc’s approach to energy, security and migration has been transformed
Business Post's View Editorial: Reality knocked in 2022, and this year we must open the door to changeFrom the war in Ukraine to the protests in Iran, we in the West must back those struggling for truth, justice and liberty
Russia Elaine Byrne: Powerful private armies are pushing Putin to an ever more brutal stanceThe Russian president has little control over Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, who criticise inept military leadership without censure and promote extreme measures in Ukraine
War in Ukraine Jeff Farrell in Ukraine: ‘This is the bloody Russian world’Until a few weeks ago, the village of Tetyanivka was on the front line of the Ukraine invasion. Now the few residents left are coming to terms with the trauma and trying to rebuild
