The High Court has agreed to hear a Russian court challenge to the validity of new federal laws seeking to regain control of a block of land in Canberra.
Russia has summoned the Australian ambassador to protest the scrapping of a land lease in Canberra for an embassy and says relations are "at an all-time low".
Canberrans from all walks of life joined the local Ukrainian community at a peaceful vigil outside the Russian embassy in Canberra today marking one year since Russian troops began Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
To keep the invasion at the forefront of Canberrans’ minds, the Ukrainian community are hosting a vigil outside the Russian embassy on the one-year anniversary, 24 February.
As Russian attacks leave Ukrainian cities without power and water, this correspondent asks the ACT Government to stop supplying utilities to the Russian Embassy in Canberra.
The Australian government is now in court over an allegedly "unreasonable" decision to terminate a 99-year lease and expel Russia from its new Canberra embassy site.
