Full text: Putin on Wagner coup
Vladimir Putin has just released a speech to Russians after the Wagner mercenary group took over Russian military headquarters in…
What’s behind Germany’s far-right surge?
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany’s far-right populist party, is enjoying a surge in support. A poll by broadcaster ARD this…
Everything we know about the Nottingham attack so far
Three people have died and three were injured in an attack in the centre of Nottingham yesterday. In the early…
Putin’s nuclear reshuffle is designed to antagonise Nato
Days before Nato leaders descend on Vilnius for the alliance’s annual summit next month, things will be afoot just across…
Was Boris doomed anyway?
Boris Johnson has stepped down as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip with immediate effect, but is it a…
Moscow is now a target in Putin’s war
Russian drones attacked Kyiv last night, the 17th such assault this month. But this time there was a difference: just…
Record numbers of Russian soldiers are going Awol
Few Russians go willingly to fight in the ‘meat grinder’ of Ukraine, where Russia has faced as many as 100,000…
Victory Day threatens Putin’s alternative reality
As Vladimir Putin rounded off his Victory Day speech with a resounding ‘Hurrah!’ to Russia, the contrast between the celebrations…
Is Putin scared of a Victory Day attack?
In the Russian calendar 9 May holds near-religious significance. Celebrating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War,…
The jailing of Kremlin critic Kara-Murza is a message from Putin
In a warning to Kremlin critics everywhere, the prominent Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza has today been sentenced to 25…
Are Germany’s Greens on borrowed time?
Have cracks started to show in Germany’s traffic light government? Less than 18 months after chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic…
David Kezerashvili: ‘Georgia is a proxy of the Russian state’
Georgia’s exiled former defence minister on Putin, poisonings and EU membership
Putin’s crackdown on Russia’s school children
In Russia, nowhere – and no one – is safe from the insidious reach of Putin’s war in Ukraine. In April 2022, during a school…
Is Putin struggling to maintain his strongman image?
China’s president Xi Jinping has arrived in Russia for the start of a three day state visit. The aim of the trip, according…
Can the Liberal Democrats become relevant again?
With neither the Conservatives nor the Labour party keen to talk publicly at least about softening Brexit, is there a…
Thousands protest against ‘Russian-style’ laws in Georgia
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi for a second day. Riot police have used…
Did Belarusian rebels blow up one of Putin’s planes?
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has some awkward explaining to do to Vladimir Putin after a Russian military plane, being stored…
What Belarus gets out of its friendship with China
What has Alexander Lukashenko been up to in China? The purpose of the Belarusian President’s three-day visit, according to state…
Why is Russia ignoring the anniversary of the Ukraine war?
If you read the Russian newspapers this morning, you would be forgiven for thinking today was a day like any other. You…
Did Putin just START a nuclear arms race?
The war with Ukraine is here to stay – and Russians better get used to it. That was Vladimir Putin’s…
Is Putin scared of Ukrainian bombs?
Putin’s war has finally made its way to the Russian home front. A leak from the Kremlin reveals that Russia’s regional governments are…
Putin can’t keep Russians in the dark forever about the Ukraine death toll
Nearly 188,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the start of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine eleven months…
Is Putin about to gamble on a second mobilisation wave?
Is Vladimir Putin finally about to announce a second mobilisation wave? Ukraine has been warning for weeks that up to half-a-million…
In pictures: Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazil’s presidential palace
A few days after the anniversary of the 6 January events in Washington DC, thousands of Jair Bolsonaro supporters stormed…
Putin violates his own Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s 36 hour ceasefire in Ukraine, which came into effect at noon today, didn’t last long: less than two…
