Navalny showed there is a better Russia
Everything was angular about him: his brilliant smile, the choppy movements of his hands as he spoke, the western mannerisms he had…
Putin’s secret weapon is fragility
As the dust settles on Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny that wasn’t, the consensus is clear: Vladimir Putin has been left weakened…
Who is running Russia while Putin plays war?
As the war in Ukraine spilled into Russian territory, with shelling in the Russian city of Belgorod, President Vladimir Putin was busy…
Is Yevgeny Prigozhin having second thoughts about the Ukraine war?
Something strange is happening to Yevgeny Prigozhin. The chief of Vladimir Putin’s mercenary army in Ukraine has begun withdrawing his…
Russian patriotism isn’t what Putin thinks it is
With Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine showing no signs of reaching a conclusion, a recent study by the country’s main…
The ‘sham subculture’ sparking panic in the Kremlin
Their two countries may be at war, but Russian and Ukrainian police have a common and apparently formidable enemy. That…
Can Ukraine ever win over Crimea and the Donbas?
It’s a topic that few are willing to talk about, but at some point – and especially if it is…
Putin will stick to his world war two narrative – it’s all he’s got left
‘It’s unbelievable but true,’ Vladmir Putin said on the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of the battle of Stalingrad. ‘We…
Why Putin needs Prigozhin
It’s been a tense couple of weeks for Yevgeny Prigozhin, the businessman and founder the of Wagner Group of mercenaries.…
Putin is running out of options – and shopping for more
As Vladimir Putin geared up to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, all the…
Latvia’s Russian media crackdown will delight Putin
When Russia was preparing to annex Crimea in the late winter of 2014, the newly-appointed head of the Russian agency…
The best way to stop Russian trolls is to ignore them
Almost from the moment the polls closed in the 2016 US presidential contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, accusations…
Putin's acolytes are boxing him in
As Russia continues to get routed in eastern Ukraine – losing territory, machinery and personnel to an emboldened Ukrainian counteroffensive…
