Why Prigozhin rebelled
Civil war broke on Russia like a thunderstorm, replacing weeks of mounting political heat with a deluge of fire and…
Where’s Putin?
The Russian leader is losing control
Erdogan made himself indispensable – to Turkey and the West
Some Turks voted for the devil they knew. More voted for the hero they knew. Either way, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s…
Baltic view
Lithuania’s Prime Minister on what a Ukrainian victory would look like
Vladimir Putin must be praying that Lukashenko survives
Belarus’s president Aleksandr Lukashenko has been missing from public view since being taken ill during a Victory Day parade in…
Erdogan faces runoff vote in the Turkish elections
Turkey is a strange kind of democracy. But nonetheless it is a democracy where an apparently invincible strongman can –…
Is Europe returning to business as usual with the Kremlin?
Before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, some of the Kremlin’s staunchest friends in Europe were the energy executives who lobbied for…
Putin’s martyrs
The terrible choice facing Russia’s opposition
‘Navalny is ready to fight and win’
The Russian rebel’s chief of staff on standing up to Putin
Erdogan’s rival
Could a mild-mannered economist put an end to the Turkish leader’s 20-year rule?
Were Ukrainians behind the Nord Stream bombings?
Vladimir Putin has his story, and he’s sticking to it: the destruction of three of the four Gazprom-owned Nord Stream…
Is Georgia seeing a ‘colour revolution’?
On the face of it, the protests that rocked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last week looked a lot like…
China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine
At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced that his country was currently in…
Spring loaded
One year into the war, where does Ukraine go from here?
‘There is no upside to speaking out’
Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev on his decision to defect
Wasted energy
Putin’s plan to freeze Europe has failed
Voices in the wilderness
Russia’s exiled media should be protected, not shut down
Chinese whispers
Beijing’s secret role in the Ukraine war
Russian roulette
The evolution of ‘tactical’ nuclear war
No more Mr Nice Guy
Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the few leaders of modern times whose charisma, determination and sheer cojones can be said,…
Kremlin crack-up
Inside the power struggle at the heart of Russia
Who really blew up the Kerch Bridge?
Who blew up the Kerch bridge? One of President Zelensky’s most senior advisers, Mikhailo Podolyak, has suggested that the Russians…
Diary
Moscow A week of somewhat mixed messages from the Kremlin. One day Vladimir Putin opened Europe’s largest Ferris wheel…
Europe should welcome fleeing Russians
In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s surprise announcement of partial mobilisation on Wednesday, thousands of young Russian men decided that…
More mad than Vlad
Putin’s most dangerous opposition comes from Russia’s ultra-nationalists
