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Will the SNP be trounced at the next UK and Scottish elections?

Reports of the death of the SNP are greatly exaggerated
I AM mightily impressed by the certainty with which Robert IG Scott (Letters, September 11) proclaims that the SNP is going to be “thoroughly thrashed” at the next elections: “absolutely no doubt” of it, he tells us.

'Racially aggravated' attack on three Ukrainian teens sees 13-year-old stabbed

'Racially aggravated' attack on three Ukrainian teens sees 13-year-old stabbed

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Grant Shapps arrives in Downing Street

Spotlight Grant Shapps: Amateur pilot with punk relations who flies in the face of Wikipedia

Ukrainian singer Elzara Batalova

'Putin and Stalin are devils from the same system': Ukraine singer on escaping Kiev

Russian officials, such as Putin's 'chef' Yevgeny Prigozhin, are facing sanctions. Photograph: Getty

Wagner boss 'killed' in Russian plane crash days after first appearance since mutiny

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The Ukrainian and Stirling partnership.

How the University of Stirling is helping bring clean water to Ukraine

KYIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 27, 2021 - MP Lesia Vasylenko delivers a speech during a regular sitting of the Verkhovna Rada, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Ukrinform / Future Publishing (Photo credit should read Volodymyr Tarasov/ Ukrinform/Future

Ukrainian MP backs workers striking at munitions factory in Beith

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File photo dated 01/09/21 of an E10 petrol pump at a petrol station. Soaring inflation is continuing to bite for British households as petrol prices struck new record highs and the cost of everyday items such as stamps jumped further. Issue date: Friday

Supermarkets have doubled their margin on fuel since the Ukraine war, research says

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Russian anti-war activist Sasha Skochilenko.

Art exhibition by Russian political prisoner and anti-war activist coming to Glasgow

Alex Salmond is relaunching his broadcasting career

LETTERS Lay off the attacks on Alex Salmond, the only able leader Scotland has had

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NOVOVORONTSOVKA, UKRAINE - MAY 06: Local government officials and Ukrainian soldiers inspect a wheat grain warehouse earlier shelled by Russian forces on May 06, 2022 near the frontlines of Kherson Oblast in Novovorontsovka, Ukraine. Russia has been

Food security concerns as Russia halts landmark deal on Ukrainian grain exports

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Refugees had been living on a former cruise ship

Scottish Government £23m fund to provide 1,200 homes for Ukrainian refugees

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Nataliie Pidruchna and husband Serhii Pidruchnyer with their daughter Kateryna

Exclusive An exclusive look on board the cruise ship housing Ukrainian refugees in Edinburgh

The MS Victoria, docked in Leith, accommodated more than 1,000 Ukrainians

Ukrainians disembarked from Leith cruise ship as accommodation contract ends

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Teaching staff at Hutcheson's Grammar School are taking industrial action over reduced pensions. Pictured are EIS members on a picket outside the school

LETTERS It is wrong to ask Hutchesons' teachers to put the school before their families

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Keith Allan pays respect to Ukrainian heroes in Lviv

Scots diplomat on move from paradise isle to war-torn Ukraine

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Villagers living on the banks of the Dnipro river have been told to leave their homes

Ukraine accuses Russian forces of blowing up dam

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Defence ministry said Russian forces repelled attack in Donetsk province.

Russia claims ‘large-scale’ Ukrainian assault thwarted

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The Ossetians are an Iranian people who, rightly or wrongly, are often seen as allies of Russia in the Caucasus

Exclusive Inside Russia's 'prison of nations': A guide to the nationalities

Is the question even realistic? Or an attempt to troll Mr Putin and wind up his nationalist base?

Exclusive 'Identities are treacherous': The question of de-colonising Russia

Scotland, independence and the nation's role in 'de-colonising' Russia

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Russia claims it has been hit by drones

Moscow mayor claims buildings damaged by Ukrainian drone strike

Debris hangs from a residential building heavily damaged in a Russian bombing in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Fighting has raged around Lysychansk and neighbouring Sievierodonetsk, the last major cities under

War in Ukraine Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirms Russia has taken Bakhmut

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky meet during the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan

Ukraine moves closer to securing fighter jets as Russia warns of 'enormous risks'

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Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron

Johnson dismissed Macron as ‘Putin’s lickspittle’, says former comms chief

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Official visit of the President of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet Rishi Sunak for 'substantive negotiations' in London

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UK to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles, defence secretary confirms

UK to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles, defence secretary confirms

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Thousands of Ukrainian refugees remain in temporary accommodation in Scotland

Outrage as thousand of Ukrainian refugees still in temporary accommodation

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Ukraine has denied being responsible for a drone attack on the Kremlin

Ukraine denies responsibility for drones shot down at the Kremlin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP).

Russia accuses Ukraine of Kremlin attack in attempted assassination of Vladimir Putin

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A Ukrainian soldier in Avdiivka last week, the site of heavy battles with Russian troops in the Donetsk region of

Letters: The West must not take the easy way out and betray poor Ukraine

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A joint report by Scandinavian broadcasters claims the Admiral Vladimirsky was part of an operation to map undersea infrastructure

Russian spy ship ‘gathered intelligence off Scottish coast for energy sabotage plans’

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Lives of Ukrainians aboard MV Ambition as cruise ship prepares to sail from Clyde

Exclusive Love, loss and sanctuary: On board the MV Ambition with Scotland's Ukrainian refugees

Arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putin due to war in Ukraine

Arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putin due to war in Ukraine

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'Insensitive' Yousaf asks Ukrainian refugees: Where are all the men?

SNP LEADERSHIP 'Ignorant' Yousaf asks Ukrainian refugees: Where are all the men?

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The British Red Cross said some people have lived on board the ship for as long as seven months without any clear indication of when they will be moved.

Ukrainian refugees 'living in limbo' as fears raised over cruise ship accommodation

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Is the operation of Lothian Buses a template for the rest of the country?

Letters Reductions in bus and rail services will make a mockery of car usage target

Should Vladimir Putin be allowed to keep control of the territories his Russian troops have annexed?

LETTERS History shows that we must not allow Putin to keep his ill-gotten gains

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A damaged bust of Vladimir Lenin lies in the street in the town of Lyman last week. Lyman is strategically important in the battle for the Donbas region.

Letters Donbas is not worth Armageddon – we must have peace negotiations

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Ukraine conflict anniversary protest in Glasgow

In pictures 'You will never fade from our hearts': Glasgow marks one year on from Ukraine war

Sofia Kyrychenko, 21, and Dmytro Nguien, 24, have come to Glasgow to join the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

How young Ukrainians hope Scottish experience will help them rebuild homeland

Vladimir Putin lays flowers near the Kremlin Wall on Russia’s Defender of the Fatherland Day yesterday – the eve of the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine

Letters Determination to seek Russia's humiliating defeat could end in catastrophe

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Scots fall silent in show of solidarity with Ukraine

Scots fall silent in show of solidarity with Ukraine

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Certain Scots will excuse Putin's acts of aggression toward Ukraine without considering the full gravity and devastation of his actions

Opinion Neil Mackay: Putin’s useful Scottish idiots fail to grasp reality of his terrible war

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Vladimir Putin addresses Ukraine war in Russian state of the union address

Vladimir Putin addresses Ukraine war in Russian state of the union address

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There has been some opposition to Kate Forbes' candidacy for the post of First Minister because of her religious views

Letters A government that promotes goodness could boost indy case

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President Volodymyr Zelensky welcoming Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to Kyiv.

Keir Starmer visits Ukraine to pledge 'unwavering' support if he becomes PM

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Russia flies nuclear bombers over sea north of Scotland

Russia flies nuclear bombers over sea north of Scotland

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Edinburgh to mark one year since invasion of Ukraine in show of 'solidarity'

Edinburgh to mark one year since invasion of Ukraine in show of 'solidarity'

Couples Therapy: Orna Guralnik , Showtime Network

TV; 'The good doctor, and her wise little dog, will see you now'

Exclusive Firm funded by Scottish taxes sent equipment to Russia after Ukraine invasion

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The Wagner Group, Putin's Chef and another UK Government scandal

The Wagner Group, Putin's Chef and another UK Government scandal

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon picture at a Scottish Government press conference earlier this week

Letters Is there no end to the hypocrisy of Nicola Sturgeon?

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A relative of a couple who died under the rubble after Russia hit their apartment block with a missile, mourns by the coffins during a funeral service in Dnipro, Ukraine. Britain is promising to send tanks to help the country fight back

Letters Give Ukraine tanks, but attach strings to the deal that give Putin a way out

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