Alex Tsipras has been the Greek Prime Minister since January 2014.

Peter Pomerantsev’s book about Russia today reveals complex, vibrant, corrupt society that expects the West to collapse just as the Soviet Union did — and then they will rule the world he tells Richard Fitzpatrick.

THE annual cleaning of one of Christianity’s holiest churches deteriorated into a brawl between rival clergy as dozens of monks feuding over sacred space at the Church of the Nativity battled each other with brooms until police intervened.

The annual cleaning of one of Christianity’s holiest churches deteriorated into a brawl between rival clergy today, as dozens of monks feuding over sacred space at the Church of the Nativity battled each other with brooms until police intervened.

As the Russian people begin to tire of his stunts, it is high time Vladimir Putin left the political spotlight, writes Nina L Khrushcheva

BOOKS that genuinely break new ground don’t come along very often, and even then they tend to be academic rather than reader-friendly.

NEXT week marks 90 years since the election of the first Irish woman to parliament — Countess Constance Markievicz.

Ninety years after he was executed, Tsar Nicholas II is leading a tight race to be named the greatest Russian in history.

Scientists today confirmed they have found the remains of the heir to Russia’s last tsar and his sister.

There is a “high probability” that bones found recently in Russia belonged to a daughter and son of the last czar, an official said today.

The remains of the last tsar’s son and heir to the Russian throne, missing since the royal family was gunned down nine decades ago by Bolsheviks in a basement, may have been found, an archaeologist said.

Legendary Russian swimmer Alexander Popov has announced he is calling time on his illustrious career at the age of 33.

The British government today faced new demands to tackle sectarianism in Northern Ireland sport.

A record crowd in sun drenched Dunmanway yesterday saw outsider Torpedo, driven by Donal Murphy, land the final of the West Cork Bottling Grand Prix on the second day of the Ballabuidhe Festival.

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin, formerly head of the KGB, arrived in Britain yesterday to a welcome fit for a tsar. At the start of the first state visit by a Russian leader since 1874, when Tsar Alexander II came to Britain, President Putin basked in the British sunshine.