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Chelsea set to renew Arsen Zakharyan talks in January after £12.6m deal collapses due to Russian invasion

Chelsea will not sign Arsen Zakharyan this summer but could return for the Dynamo Moscow midfielder as early as January amid the complex rules around the transfer of Russian players.

Evening Standard

Vladimir Putin’s forces facing ‘severe manpower shortages’ in Ukraine, says US

Moscow expected to recruit convicted criminals from prisons for its military in exchange for pardons, says intelligence official

Evening Standard

Russian oil executive dies in fall from Moscow hospital window

Ravil Maganov was chair of Russia’s biggest private oil company, Lukoil, which has criticised Ukraine invasion

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Russia warns Moldova not to threaten its troops in breakaway region

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Moldova on Thursday that threatening the security of Russian troops in the breakaway region of Transdniestria risked triggering military confrontation with Moscow.

Reuters

Finland drastically cuts tourist visas for Russians

As of September 1, Finland will only permit Russians to apply for tourist visas from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk and Petrozavodsk only

The Hindu

Macron Hopeful of Iran Nuclear Deal in Next Few Days

France's president said on Thursday he hoped a deal to revive the Iran nuclear deal would be concluded in the coming days. "I hope that in the next few days the JCPOA will be concluded," Emmanuel Macron said, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as the deal is…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia calls ageing space station "dangerous" as it plans successor

The International Space Station (ISS) is dangerous and unfit for purpose, Russia's space chief said on Thursday, as Moscow pushes ahead with plans to quit the project and launch its own station.

Reuters

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Editorial: Gorbachev's legacy and Putin's war

"I like Mr. Gorbachev," British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in 1984. "We can do business together."

Tribune News Service

IAEA team plan to stay at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, chief says

Rafael Grossi praises work of plant staff and says inspectors will remain on Russian-occupied site

The Guardian - UK

Russian oil chief dies after falling from hospital window - reports

A Russian businessman has died after falling out of a window at a Moscow hospital, reports have stated.

Evening Standard

Chairman of Russia’s Lukoil Dies after Falling from Window

Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters. Some Russian media also reported the death of Maganov, 67, who was also Lukoil's vice president, citing unnamed sources. No immediate comment…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia starts massive war games with China and other ally states

Vostok 2022 – which will last until September 7 – shows strengthening defence cooperation between Russia and China.

Al Jazeera

India is new major player in Russian oil market once dominated by China

NEW DELHI: India has pushed into a corner of the Russian oil market once dominated by China, taking a record number of shipments of a Far Eastern grade as the fallout from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine reshapes trade flows.

The Times of India

Top Russian oil official falls to death from hospital window - sources

Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, two sources familiar with the situation said, becoming the latest in a series of businessmen to meet with sudden unexplained deaths.

Reuters

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The Independent UK

Russia launches war games with China, others

Russia has launched weeklong war games that involve forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the U.S. The maneuvers are also intended to demonstrate that Moscow has a sufficient capability for massive drills even…

The Hindu

PM Modi condoles Gorbachev's demise, hails his contribution to strengthening India-Russia ties

Former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev died at a hospital in Moscow on Tuesday at the age of 91 after a "serious and prolonged illness"

The Independent UK

N. Korea may send workers to Russian-occupied east Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country’s east

Businessweek

Russia’s Conspiracy-Theory Factory Is Swaying a Brand-New Audience

RT is banned in the US and Europe—but winning friends in the developing world.

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev loved a good hat – so Australia's main man in Moscow got him an Akubra

In 2017, the centenary of the November Bolshevik revolution landed on Melbourne Cup Day. The Soviet Union's last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrated at Australia's embassy in Moscow, James Glenday writes.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's Mikhail Gorbachev funeral nightmare as he fears exposing health to west

Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, 91, following his death but the last leader of the Soviet Union's funeral poses issues for the Russia and its president

The Guardian - UK

Gorbachev was let down by the west. Putin’s Russia is the result

Letters: With better support from the US and Britain, Russia could have been a very different place today, says Michael Meadowcroft, while Bill Robinson remembers photographing the Thatchers and the Gorbachevs in Moscow

The Conversation

Mikhail Gorbachev: southern Africans have a special reason to thank him

The whole world has much to thank Mikhail Gorbachev for. As many have pointed out since his death in Moscow earlier this week, Gorbachev – the last leader of the Soviet Union – did more than anyone to bring the Cold War to an end peacefully, reducing the threat that…

Radio France Internationale

How Gorbachev's 'perestroika' resonated on the African continent

The late Mikhail Gorbachev is praised in the West for helping to end the Cold War and a bipolar world in which Soviet-allied African countries found themselves at the mercy of strategic struggles between Washington and Moscow. Released from the 'bear-hug', some states faired better than others.

The Conversation

Ukraine war: how Kyiv's southern offensive will exploit Russia's naval vulnerabilities

Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in the Kherson region on August 29, the success of which would have major military, political and symbolic consequences. This move has been made possible by Ukraine’s recent maritime successes that have reduced Russia’s ability to control the southern coast of Ukraine.

Reuters

Funeral of last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to take place on Saturday -media reports

The funeral of the Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday in Moscow aged 91, will take place on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported, citing Gorbachev's daughter and a spokesperson for his foundation.

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