Is Russia trying to flood Finland with migrants?
Against the background of the war in Ukraine, a diplomatic row is brewing between Russia and Finland. Last week, Finland…
Cameron’s Ukraine trip provides a welcome boost for Zelensky
Just days after returning to government as Lord Cameron, the former prime minister and new Foreign Secretary has made his…
Why Putin thinks war with Ukraine is like the Israel-Palestine conflict
Who is to blame for the shocking pogrom in the Dagestani city of Makhachkala, where a mob of hundreds stormed the…
Why Putin hosted Hamas at the Kremlin
Since Hamas’s attack on Israel nearly three weeks ago, Vladimir Putin has been torn between who to back. It took the…
Putin will be hoping for gifts from Xi in Beijing
In the early hours of this morning, Vladimir Putin touched down in Beijing to attend the third forum of the…
Juncker dismisses ‘corrupt’ Ukraine joining EU in near future
Just days after Ukraine’s President Zelensky declared his intention to start EU membership negotiations by the end of this year,…
How a pro-Russia party triumphed in Slovakia’s election
The staunchly pro-Russian Robert Fico is back in power for a third time in Slovakia. Fico’s Smer party clinched at least…
The West and Russia are at war, says Sergei Lavrov
The United States and Britain are at war with Russia. So said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a…
Olaf Scholz’s failing coalition is leaking support to the AfD
Germans are increasingly fed up with their hapless chancellor Olaf Scholz and his traffic light coalition. Just a quarter of…
What Prigozhin’s clandestine funeral says about the Kremlin
For the past week, the arrangements for Yevgeny Prigozhin’s funeral have been shrouded in secrecy. Now it has been confirmed…
Ukraine steps up its drone warfare against Crimea
In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine launched 42 unmanned drones at the annexed territory of Crimea, the Russian…
How Russia’s media reacted to the Prigozhin plane crash
After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted march on Moscow at the end of June, the Wagner Group leader became a divisive figure…
Yevgeny Prigozhin reported dead in plane crash
From the moment Yevgeny Prigozhin aborted his march on Moscow it was a question of when and how – not…
Putin tries to turn Africa against the West
After Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Brics global summit in South Africa, there can be no doubt that the Russian…
From ABC to AK-47: Russia’s new wartime curriculum
The Ukraine conflict has spread to Russia’s classrooms
Russian military chief lets slip the cost of invasion
When it comes to disclosing the true cost of the war in Ukraine for Russia, the Kremlin has rarely, if…
The drone attacks on Moscow are only just beginning
A drone has hit a tower in Moscow’s financial district – just two days after the building was targeted in another attack. In…
Zelensky’s drone warning to Russians
Hours after Moscow was once again attacked by unmanned drones in the early hours of Sunday, Volodymyr Zelensky has declared…
Drones strike Moscow in fifth attack since May
For the fifth time in three months, Moscow has once again been targeted by drones. In what is fast becoming…
Prigozhin reappears for first time since failed Wagner coup
Nearly four weeks on from his failed coup, Evgeniy Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner group, has finally resurfaced in public. A video published…
Crimea’s Kerch bridge targeted in second attack
The Kerch bridge, Russia’s only road link to Crimea, has been targeted once again in what seems to have been a…
Have we seen the last of the Wagner Group?
Three weeks after marching on Moscow, the Wagner Group has seemingly been withdrawn from the battlefield in Ukraine, according to…
Drone strikes Russian military base near Moscow
Just as Moscow was beginning to recover from the shock of Evgeniy Prigozhin’s march on the capital, the city has,…
Has Putin had Sergei Surovikin locked up?
When Evgeniy Prigozhin started his armed insurrection, it was clear that he had allies within the ranks of the Russian…
Did Putin’s allies flee Moscow?
As soon as the Wagner coup started, Ukrainian social media was full of memes of Vladimir Putin saying ‘I don’t…
