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Steve Rosenberg

@BBCSteveR

4 months

“War and peace side by side.” I gauge the mood in a small town sixty miles from Moscow. #2024 @BBCNews

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Steve Rosenberg

@BBCSteveR

2 years

Absolutely astonishing. During Russian Channel 1’s evening news broadcast, a woman ran onto the set with a sign: “No war…Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here.”

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In 1990 I was in the queue when McDonald's opened its 1st restaurant in Moscow: when iron curtains were crumbling & Russia was embracing the West. Today McDonald's announced it is temporarily closing its 850 restaurants in Russia. Hugely symbolic.

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2 years

Extraordinary exchange on Russian state TV’s top talk show about Ukraine. Military analyst & retired colonel Mikhail Khodarenok tells anchor Olga Skabeyeva “the situation for us will clearly get worse…we’re in total geopolitical isolation…the situation is not normal.”

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Steve Rosenberg

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3 months

Interesting to hear @TuckerCarlson claim that “no western journalist has bothered to interview” Putin since the invasion of Ukraine. We’ve lodged several requests with the Kremlin in the last 18 months. Always a ‘no’ for us.

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2 years

* Ukraine is granted EU candidacy status; * Finland/Sweden on the path to Nato membership; * Russian GDP forecast to contract by 8-10% in 2022; Can't imagine the Kremlin expected this when it invaded Ukraine.

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Steve Rosenberg

@BBCSteveR

10 months

The car in front of us driving through Moscow. Couldn’t have put it better myself.

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Steve Rosenberg

@BBCSteveR

2 years

A little announcement.

BBC News Press Team

@BBCNewsPR

2 years

BBC News is pleased to announce that @BBCSteveR has become Russia Editor, effective immediately. Read more here:

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Steve Rosenberg

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5 months

Four hours. No question. #Putinpressconference

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2 years

Trying to press Alexander Lukashenko on human rights in Belarus. You can watch a 24-min version of our interview today on @BBCWorld at 0930, 1530 & 1830 GMT. Also here Camera/edit @mattgodtv Camera @AntonChicherov Producer @BBCWillVernon @BBCNews

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2 years

Vladimir Putin in Tehran: “the Syrian crisis can only be resolved…by strictly adhering to the basic principles of respecting sovereignty, independence, unity & territorial integrity.” This is the same Vladimir Putin who, 5 months ago, invaded Ukraine. Territorial integrity…?

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2 years

The Russian government today had this message for the public regarding sugar and buckwheat: “Don’t panic buy. There’s enough for everyone.” Not in this Moscow supermarket.

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2 months

The scene at Moscow’s Borisovskoye cemetery this morning. Russians continue to place flowers on the grave of Alexei Navalny. There’s now a mountain of floral tributes to the late opposition leader. @BBCNews #Navalny

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I saw his hearse & his coffin. I saw thousands of Russians paying him their last respects. But it’s still hard to believe that Alexei Navalny is dead. Among his supporters there's disbelief & defiance. Our report from Moscow. Producer @LizaShuvalova Camera @AntonChicherov & team

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2 years

Moscow may avoid the word ‘war’. But the UN Sec-General is clear what Russia (a permanent Sec Cl member) has done: “War in Ukraine is one of the greatest challenges ever to the international order…a full-fledged invasion…by the Russian Federation in violation of UN charter.”

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Steve Rosenberg

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2 months

As Muscovites lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny riot police moved in. A woman shouted: "We have the right to stand here & we will!" Another cried: "This street isn't yours. It belongs to everyone!" Our latest report from Moscow. Thanks @AntonChicherov @BenTavener #Navalny

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Steve Rosenberg

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4 years

The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, tells me the world is in "colossal danger." I ask him about East-West tension...& Brexit. Camera/edit @mattgodtv Producer @LizaShuvalova @BBCNews @BBCWorld

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Steve Rosenberg

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2 years

Many times I’ve thought: “Putin would never do this.” Then he does it. "He’d never annex Crimea." He did. "He’d never intervene in the Donbas." He did. "He’d never launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine." He has. “Would never do” doesn't apply to Vladimir Putin.

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Steve Rosenberg

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6 months

In the late 1890s my great grandparents left the Russian empire because of pogroms. What happened yesterday in Makhachkala - a mob storming the airport to hunt for Jews, the mob checking passports as they looked for Israelis - this brought the 1890s into 2023.

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2 years

Russian state TV’s flagship news show explains Russia’s problem in Ukraine: “The West is waging a war in Ukraine…a war against Russia. The general aim is Russia’s collapse.” Totally ignores the fact Russia began this by invading Ukraine (which the West urged Putin not to do).

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1 year

Putin/Lukashenko meetings: 22.02.21 in Russia 22.04.21 Russia 28.05.21 Russia 13.07.21 Russia 29.12.21 Russia 18.02.22 Russia 11.03.22 Russia 12.04.22 Russia 16.05.22 Russia 23.05.22 Russia 25.06.22 Russia 26.09.22 Russia 19.12.22 in Belarus Pattern broken. Wonder why.

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1 year

Our interview with Alexander Lukashenko has won the Royal Television Society Network Interview of the Year award. An honour for us & a real team effort with my superb colleagues @BBCWillVernon @mattgodtv @AntonChicherov . Here’s an excerpt. Full interview

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Steve Rosenberg

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3 years

Many songs were written about the legend that is Diego Maradona. As a musical tribute to a great footballer, here’s my version of one of the most famous Maradona songs: La mano de Dios. Rest in peace Diego. @BBCNews @BBCWorld @BBCSport @bbcmundo #Maradona

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2 years

“I’m against war. I don’t want body bags coming to Moscow, Yaroslav, Nizhny. I don’t want our mothers, wives, children crying. What will Putin achieve? Ukraine as an enemy, iron curtain, sanctions…” Boris Nemtsov said this in 2014. It's 7 years today since Nemtsov was murdered.

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2 years

After invading Ukraine on 24 February, Vladimir Putin called on Ukrainian soldiers to “immediately lay down your weapons and go home.” They didn’t. If the Kremlin was expecting a short ‘operation’ and swift victory, it was mistaken. We’re at 100 days and counting.

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2 years

As the Kremlin pushes ahead with plans to annex more Ukrainian territory via hastily organised 'referendums', a reminder of what President Putin said on 24 February: "It is not our plan to occupy Ukrainian territory."

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Russian Commander Surovikin tells Russian TV: “We & Ukrainians are one people. We want Ukraine to be independent of the West & Nato, a state that is friendly to Russia.” Moscow's aim is clear: to force Ukraine to be 'friends' with Russia (ie force Ukraine into Russia's orbit).

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Russian pop legend Alla Pugacheva has asked to be declared “foreign agent” in solidarity with showbiz husband Maxim Galkin, who she says "wants prosperity for the motherland, peace, free speech & an end to our lads dying for illusory aims that make our country a pariah..." Wow.

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Steve Rosenberg

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2 years

Access to @Twitter in Russia is being severely restricted. This message got through, but took a while.

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Steve Rosenberg

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2 years

The Russian authorities deny: • striking civilian targets in Ukraine • invading Ukraine (it's a special operation) • organising Salisbury poisonings • organising Navalny poisoning • involvement in shooting down MH17 • meddling in US elections • I've run out of space

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2 years

Russian state TV on Finland/Sweden wanting to join Nato:“Their official reason is fear. But they’ll have more fear in Nato. When Nato bases appear in Sweden & Finland, Russia will have no choice but to neutralise the imbalance & new threat by deploying tactical nuclear weapons.”

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Steve Rosenberg

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2 years

Mikhail Gorbachev is 91 today. We wish him good health.

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@BBCSteveR

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Time, I think, to recall what Mikhail Gorbachev told me in 2019: “As long as weapons of mass destruction exist the danger is colossal. All nations should declare that nuclear weapons must be destroyed. To save ourselves and our planet.” Camera @mattgodtv Producer @LizaShuvalova

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Steve Rosenberg

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4 months

This morning an electronic billboard on my way to work is displaying this Putin quote: “Russia’s borders do not end anywhere.”

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Boris Bondarev, the Russian diplomat who has quit in protest at Russia’s offensive in Ukraine, tells me this about his resignation: “I don’t think it will change a lot, frankly. But it may be one little brick in the bigger wall which will eventually be built.”

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2 years

Time, I think, to recall what Mikhail Gorbachev told me in 2019: “As long as weapons of mass destruction exist the danger is colossal. All nations should declare that nuclear weapons must be destroyed. To save ourselves and our planet.” Camera @mattgodtv Producer @LizaShuvalova

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6 months

In court to witness Sasha Skochilenko sentenced to 7 years in prison. She was arrested last year after replacing supermarket price tags with messages critical of Russia's war in Ukraine. In St Petersburg she was convicted of spreading 'false information' about the Russian army.

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@BBCSteveR

2 years

Another example of the Kremlin's alternative reality. On state TV, host Kiselev suggests Russia had to act in Ukraine because the West “refused talks on security” (it didn’t) & because “preparations were being made for the military destruction of Russia” (they weren’t).

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4 years

Protestors fill Independence Square in Minsk. #Belarus

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2 years

For 7 months Russians were told this isn't a war - it's a 'special military operation.' Now they're being told: it's still a 'special operation', but we need to call up 300,000 reservists for it. How does the Kremlin explain away that one? As usual: by blaming the West.

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1 year

“I have no moral right to ask Ukrainians for forgiveness. I can’t forgive myself, so I can’t expect them to forgive me.” A former Russian army officer tells us about crimes he says he saw Russian soldiers committing in Ukraine, including torture & looting. Producer @BBCWillVernon

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9 months

I’ve recorded this tribute to George Alagiah: one of the finest and nicest journalists at the BBC. For the former Africa correspondent, I play Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika (Lord Bless Africa). Thank you to George's close friend Allan Little @alittl for suggesting the music.

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“It’s time to say goodbye to the kiosk.” Valentina is leaving Moscow and going home to Kursk. In a world turned upside down, her newspaper kiosk has been an island of sanity for me. I’ll miss her. This is the story of her last day at work. #ValentinasKiosk

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2 years

Horrific events in Ukraine are rightly dominating headlines. But important news today in Russia: the Kremlin’s most vocal critic Alexei Navalny (already in prison) has been convicted of fraud in another trial (inside his penal colony). Sentenced to 9 yrs in maximum-security jail.

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2 years

From today’s Russian papers you can see that Russia is feeling the impact of sanctions, from the aviation industry to cars and computers. #ReadingRussia

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Powerful editorial in one Russian paper today criticising “high-ranking Russian officials” for making nuclear threats. “To allow, in thoughts and words, the possibility of a nuclear conflict is a sure step towards allowing it in reality.” #ReadingRussia

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7 months

“Why have you come here?" "Good question. But I can’t answer it.” I spoke to Russians arriving at a patriotic concert on Red Square. It marked the anniversary of Russia proclaiming the annexation of 4 Ukrainian regions. Camera @AntonChicherov Producer @LizaShuvalova

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1 year

Outside Gorky Park, along with festive fir trees, is a red star with the symbol of Russia’s ‘special military operation.’ As Russia prepares for the New Year holidays, I go onto the streets of Moscow to see how the invasion of Ukraine has changed Russia. @BBCNews

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10 months

Today’s Russian newspapers on Prigozhin’s armed uprising: “Russia displayed its vulnerability, to the whole world & to itself.” “The events of 24 June will have long term consequences for the country…” #ReadingRussia

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2 years

You can tell it’s not going well for Moscow when Russian state TV’s flagship news show opens with: “This was the toughest of weeks on the frontlines of the special operation." No mention, though, of 'retreat' – instead the caption reads ‘Regrouping [of Russian forces]’

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2 years

Sergei Lavrov tells Indian TV “We are not up for regime change in Ukraine. We’ve said this repeatedly.” Really? 25 Feb Vladimir Putin told Ukrainian servicemen “Take power into your own hands, it’ll be easier for us to reach agreement.” Sounds to me like a call for regime change.

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1 year

This is an extraordinary moment. The serving president of the world’s largest country, a nuclear power, a P5 member, the president who once hosted world leaders at a G8 & G20 in St Petersburg…the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for him over alleged war crimes.

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6 years

The Russian press is calling the Singapore summit a "PR success" & "victory" for Kim Jong-un. One paper warns that Trump's "exaggerated self-belief in his powers of negotiation" puts the US president "at risk of manipulation by his negotiating partners."

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“Russia isn’t squeaky clean. Russia is what it is & we're not ashamed of showing who we are.” In an exclusive interview, I question Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Producers @BBCWillVernon @LizaShuvalova Cameras @AntonChicherov @LizaVereykina

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I’ve written a piece of music and called it Isolation. It's how I’m feeling right now. @BBCNews @BBCWorld @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds @BBCRadio4 #Russia #Ukraine

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6 months

It was an honour for me to play the piano at George Alagiah’s memorial service. Such an emotional, uplifting celebration of his life. Here’s the montage of George at work and at home for which I provided a musical accompaniment.

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1 year

“On the surface there is an air of normality. In reality, there is nothing normal about what's happening here.” My personal reflections on what it feels like in Moscow more than 14 months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. @BBCNews

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6 years

At Russia's National Grain Centre, I ask Vladimir Putin: "Is Russia behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal?"

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1 year

Today in Minsk I asked Alexander Lukashenko: “A year ago you let Russia use your country as a staging ground for the invasion of Ukraine. Are you prepared to do that again?” Producer @BBCWillVernon Camera @AntonChicherov

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10 months

Story so far...There was a mutiny. But it was over in a day. But Russian air force pilots were killed. But no one was arrested. But the Kremlin denounced the mutineers as ‘traitors’. But 5 days later Prigozhin & Wagner commanders were in the Kremlin talking to Putin. All clear?

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2 years

Tonight Russian state TV’s flagship news show tells viewers Russian troops are in Ukraine to stop Ukraine joining Nato, getting a nuclear bomb, attacking Crimea & then southern Russia, ie Ukraine was a threat to Russia. Alternative reality. More of what host Kiselev said 👇

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7 years

Crowd chanting "Russia without Putin!" & "We are the power here!". Police telling crowd they are disturbing public order & breaking the law.

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“I never thought my own country would treat me this way." We tell the story of a Russian army officer in Ukraine: after refusing to fight, he was beaten & threatened with execution to try to force him back to the front line. Producer @BBCWillVernon

Ukraine war: The Russians locked up for refusing to fight

Russian troops have reportedly been locked up for refusing to fight in the invasion of Ukraine.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mobilisation is worrying many Russians. But not Vera: “I’d be much happier if my son got wounded fighting in Ukraine than die of alcoholism here,” she tells me. Our latest report from Moscow as the draft continues. Producer @BBCWillVernon Cameras @AntonChicherov @LizaVereykina

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“There is a choice: you go & kill innocent people or you go to jail. I’d better lead my life abroad.” We talk to one man who’s decided to leave Russia because of the military call-up. Our latest report for @BBCNews Producer @BBCWillVernon Cameras @AntonChicherov @LizaVereykina

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6 years

Muscovites marching now in memory of Boris Nemtsov, the opposition politician murdered on a bridge near the Kremlin 3 years ago. Cries of "Putin is a thief!" & "This is our country!"

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2 months

In a Moscow court today we saw Russian human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison. At his trial he’d spoken of a Russia “sinking ever more deeply into darkness.” Our report for @BBCNews Camera @AntonChicherov

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6 years

Oh, the glamorous life of a foreign correspondent. In my Siberian hotel room this week, instead of a shower, there was a “bowl for washing feet”. The sign on the wall reads: “The bus to the showers leaves every Thursday at 3pm from Block 6”.

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In Minsk I ask Alexander Lukashenko: • would he allow Wagner to attack Ukraine from Belarus? • would he have a say in launching Russian tactical nuclear weapons? • about human rights in Belarus. Producer @LizaShuvalova @BBCNews

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2 years

One change I’ve noticed in Russia: the increasingly aggressive language/tone of officials. Today ex-president Medvedev posted: “I hate them. They are bastards & degenerates. They want us, Russia, dead…I’ll do all I can to make them disappear.” (he didn’t say who ‘they’ were...)

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Two Russias: Moscow mother: “The lads will run around [in Ukraine], they’ll lose a bit of weight, it’ll be OK.” Meanwhile: in Siberia a draft officer is shot; N.Caucasus protests; draft offices set on fire. Our latest report. Producer @BBCWillVernon Camera @LizaVereykina

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In Russian TV’s 3 hour “News of the Week” show, only 30 seconds were devoted to the big news of the week: the sinking of Russian warship Moskva. No details about casualties, & only mentioned in a report more than an hour into the programme. Anchor Kiselev said nothing about it.

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06:24 this morning, north-west Moscow. I heard an explosion in the distance, windows shook. Just heard another one. This is the first time my morning's started like this.

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2 years

To everyone who's sent such nice messages, thank you so much. I really appreciate your kind words.

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1 year

21 Маrch Russia & China state: “All nuclear powers must not deploy their nuclear weapons beyond their national territories & must withdraw all nuclear weapons deployed abroad.” 25 March Putin states: Russia planning to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

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After the drone attacks on two Russian airbases, one Russian paper today slams the “failure of the whole [Russian] anti-aircraft defence system.” Another: “So it turns out that enemy drones managed to travel hundreds of kilometres & avoid our defence systems?” #ReadingRussia

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Me to Lavrov: “UK/US wouldn’t be supplying multiple-launch rocket systems to Kyiv if Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine.” Lavrov to me: “The longer the range of weapons that [the West] supplies, the further we will push back” the front line.

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One of Russia’s most prominent human rights campaigners Oleg Orlov led from court, handcuffed, sent to prison for “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army.

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2 years

Two days. Friday “The people of Donetsk…are becoming our citizens forever.” [Vladimir Putin] Saturday Ukrainian army recaptures Lyman, Donetsk region.

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3 months

He was, quite simply, brilliant…a broadcaster in a class of his own. As a tribute to Steve Wright, I play the Steve Wright in the Afternoon theme. #SteveWright

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Inside the Moscow courtroom where judges have just rejected Vladimir Kara-Murza’s appeal against his 25 year prison sentence. The Kremlin critic was convicted of treason in April.

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Until today the Kremlin has been claiming that its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine has been going according to plan. Vladimir Putin's "partial mobilisation" dispels that one.

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“Russia is heading for a big catastrophe.” I keep thinking back to this report we made a year and a half ago, 2,000 miles from Moscow, and what people were saying to us back then. Camera/edit @mattgodtv Producer @BBCWillVernon

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In today’s Russian papers: * “The surrender of Lyman becomes a political problem.” * Mobilisation “has rocked the boat of political stability.” * The world “on the edge of a [nuclear] catastrophe.” #ReadingRussia

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As Vladimir Putin visits Minsk, a reminder of what Alexander Lukashenko said about Putin & integration with Russia when I interviewed him last year. He seemed irritated by questions about the Kremlin leader. Producer @BBCWillVernon Camera/edit @mattgodtv Camera @AntonChicherov

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Congratulations to Ukraine for winning @Eurovision . But also to @SamRyderMusic . For years I’ve heard disillusioned Brits say: “Europe hates us, the UK will never do well in #Eurovision again.” But no! All we needed was a great song, great singer, great performance and we’re 2nd!

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In today’s Russian papers: reaction to Russia's Kherson retreat. Plus: “Our system is geared to the search for a great leader. His decisions are not up for discussion. So he mustn’t make mistakes, for there’s no mechanism to correct them.” #ReadingRussia

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Such worrying times. But this morning I couldn’t help smiling down at the newspaper kiosk. “I’ve got a present for you,” Valentina said. “I’ve written you a poem.” #ValentinasKiosk

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When a ruler claims “I’m not the kind of person who exacts revenge”, but adds “we’ll massacre all the scum you’ve been financing,” you can’t help doubting the first line. The Lukashenko interview: & Thanks @mattgodtv @BBCWillVernon

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For Vladimir Putin the Tucker Carlson interview was a platform for transmitting the Kremlin's narrative to the West - and for 2 hours he was allowed to do that pretty much unchallenged. Our report for @BBCNews Producer @BenTavener

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who helped to end the Cold War, has died at the age of 91. This is how I will remember him.

Mikhail Gorbachev: Remembering a warm-hearted and generous man

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg recalls his meetings with the late Mikhail Gorbachev over the past 20 years.

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Thank you for all your messages about the Lukashenko interview. It was very much a team effort with @BBCWillVernon @mattgodtv @AntonChicherov . Also, thanks @UniversityLeeds for teaching me Russian. It came in useful… @BBCNews @BBCWorld

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Russian TV reporter (dressed in military garb) reports from Ukraine, with a Russian APC & Russian naval vessel behind him, & talks about the “demilitarised port of Berdiansk.”

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7 years

According to Lavrov, Trump told Putin some circles in America were "exaggerating" allegations of Russian interference in the US election.

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“Strong leaders are calm and confident. Only weak ones try to silence people.” The reaction of Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin to being sent to prison for eight and a half years. Our report for @BBCNews from Moscow. Producer @LizaShuvalova

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The announcement Russia will retreat from Kherson was a piece of TV theatre: General Surovikin reporting to Defence Minister Shoigu, who then gave the order. The one actor absent from the stage was Vladimir Putin; the Kremlin clearly anxious to distance him from this setback.

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The BBC is 100 years old today…and I’ve got a few letters to show you. @BBC @BBCNews #BBC100

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We speak to 20-year-old Olesya Krivtsova. Currently under house arrest, she faces years in a Russian prison for her social media posts about the Kremlin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine. She believes fellow students denounced her to the police. Producer @LizaShuvalova

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Kremlin will have hoped the SCO summit would show Russia's not isolated. But it's highlighted international concern over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. India’s PM Modi to Putin: "Today’s era is not an era of war." Follows Putin's admission China has “concerns” about situation.

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Valentina has sent me this video message. “Your Queen has passed. I mourn with you.”

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@BBCSteveR

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“[Putin’s] not going to give up. He’s not going to waver, he’s not going to blink, he’s not going to make concessions. He’s in it, that’s it.” Our latest @BBCNews report from Moscow. Producer @LizaSuvalova Camera @AntonChicherov

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