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…
‘My country 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…
Moscow is playing a risky blame game in Makiivka
At one minute past midnight on 1 January, as Putin uttered the last words of his new year’s address, Ukraine sent six Himars rockets into…
Putin’s wish for 2023
Following an unusually quiet December for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin has emerged to deliver his traditional New Year’s Eve…
How can the West help Russians to defeat Putinism?
Watching Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is a Christmas tradition for many. But this year, people are being urged to stay away: Ukraine’s…
Is Putin hiding away?
December is usually a busy month for Vladimir Putin, but not this year. In the run-up to Christmas, Russia’s president…
What can we expect from Hunt’s Autumn Statement?
Later this morning Jeremy Hunt will deliver his first Autumn Statement as Chancellor. With the focus firmly on the dire…
How Russia responded to the Polish missile incident
Yesterday, during the largest wave of missile strikes conducted by Russia since February, a shell flew six kilometres over the…
