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RUSSIA

Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 27, 2022
Ukraine is on the offensive but struggling to get more powerful weapons
Ukraine's backers have shied away from sending the longest-range missile systems, combat aircraft and NATO standard tanks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2022
Putin grants Edward Snowden Russian citizenship
Snowden received Russian citizenship as a result of his own request, made in 2020, to make it easier for his American wife to travel back and forth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2022
India’s long infatuation with Russia must end
In the face of growing Chinese belligerence, closer Beijing-Moscow ties augur ill for India, which should reconsider its long-standing strategic dependence on a weakening Russia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 26, 2022
Russia begins mobilizing Ukrainians to fight against their own country
The drive to compel Ukrainians to battle other Ukrainians is part of a broader, if risky, effort by Moscow to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new fighters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 26, 2022
U.S. warns Russia of ‘catastrophic consequences’ if it uses nuclear weapons
U.S. officials said that they still had not seen any movement in Russia's stockpile of 2,000 or so small tactical weapons.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 26, 2022
Does the conflict in Ukraine represent a 'new war'?
While the fighting comprises many unconventional factors, it can be regarded as a conventional war in the sense that large-scale violence will determine how the battle ends.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2022
Mazda sees no return to production in Russia
The Hiroshima-based carmaker had built vehicles for the Russian market in Vladivostok since 2012.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 25, 2022
Ukraine is 'not Nazi,' Holocaust survivors tell Putin
With the discovery of mass graves in Bucha and Irpin, some in Ukraine's Jewish community are instead drawing parallels between Russian atrocities and the Holocaust.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 25, 2022
China and India call for negotiated end of Ukraine war
No major nation has rallied behind Russia, including China, which had vowed an 'unbreakable' bond with Vladimir Putin.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2022
The new India: Expanding influence abroad, straining democracy at home
India has become indispensable in answering some of the world's challenges, from diplomacy to climate change.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 25, 2022
Russia's top envoy accuses Washington of 'playing with fire' around Taiwan
Tensions over Taiwan have soared after a visit in August by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 25, 2022
Ukraine fights to reclaim territory as Russia holds annexation referendums
The referendums — which are expected to culminate in the annexation of an area larger than Portugal — have raised alarm in Western nations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 24, 2022
As Russian losses mount in Ukraine, Putin gets more involved in war strategy
Focused on victory at all costs, Putin has become a more public face of the war as the Russian military appears increasingly in turmoil.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 24, 2022
Toyota terminates production at its plant in Russia
Toyota also said its operations in Moscow needed to be restructured, but that it would continue supporting its retail network in providing service to existing Toyota and Lexus customers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 24, 2022
Ukraine war comes home to Russians as Putin imposes draft
A day after Putin announced a call-up that could sweep 300,000 civilians into military service, the Russian leader's escalation of the war effort was reverberating across the country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 23, 2022
Putin’s conscripts won’t win his war but may drag it out
Moves could buy him time to execute a wider strategy aimed at undermining foreign military and financial support for Kyiv's war effort.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2022
Take Putin’s nuclear threat seriously, but not too seriously
Few think the Russian leader would be foolish enough to escalate radically, but there's also a strong argument to be made that he's not bluffing.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 23, 2022
From patriot to pariah: The man caught in a propaganda war over a Ukrainian nuclear plant
A former deputy spokesman at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant who helped tell the world that Russian troops had seized the strategic site is now in exile.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 23, 2022
As Putin escalates war in Ukraine, China stands awkwardly by him
Xi and Putin have grown increasingly close in recent years, bound by their mutual distrust of the West, and reaffirmed their partnership just days before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 23, 2022
Russia starts annexation vote in parts of Ukraine
The results are seen as a foregone conclusion in favor of annexation, and Ukraine and its allies have already made clear they will not recognize the results.

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