Putin’s rage
Despite western hopes, the Russian President won’t be easy to topple
Will western sanctions really hurt Putin?
Boris Johnson has announced that the UK will impose personal sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov…
Putin’s echo chamber
Has the Russian President gone mad?
War games
Is Putin playing with the western press?
Their phoney war
It suits both Boris and Putin to pretend that Russia may invade Ukraine
Haunted
The spectre of revolution is stalking Putin
Worst of both worlds
The dangers of Nato’s Ukrainian policy
Russia syndrome
It’s easy to blame Putin for everything
Putin’s plan for Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s message was as clear — and familiar — as his method. The Kremlin has begun another major build-up of troops…
Letter from Rome
‘Excommunication,’ reads a stone plaque on the wall of the church of St Theodore in Rome, ‘and a fine of…
The mystery of Vladimir Putin’s mistresses
There’s an odd thing about 18-year old Luiza Rozova’s instagram feed. You can see photos of her breakfasts (sliced exotic…
The second-worst journey in the world
The epic story of the Antarctic voyage of the Belgica (1897-9) has all the ingredients of a truly glorious misadventure:…
Bear-baiting
Sanctions against Putin and his allies don’t work
Putin and Biden need one another
Does Joe Biden think that Putin is a killer? asked ABC host George Stephanopoulos. ‘Mmm-hmm, I do,’ answered the President.…
Russian count
Putin’s hidden Covid deaths
No regrets
Kim Philby once remarked to the journalist Murray Sayle that ‘to betray, you must first belong. I never belonged’. Kim,…
Protests for Navalny sweep Russia
The protests began in Vladivostok, on Russia’s Pacific coast, and spread Westwards across 85 cities across the country’s nine time…
Unorthodox icon
Navalny’s return to Russia is brave – and provocative
Unleash chaos
How Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
There’s only one person who’ll be genuinely pleased with the UK Intelligence and Security Committee’s Russia report, finally revealed on…
Vladimir Putin’s history fetish
Russia, the old joke goes, has long been a country with an unpredictable past. On September 22, 1939, for instance,…
Putin’s stress test
Coronavirus is a double whammy for his regime
The inner circle from hell
Putin’s corrupt cronies may change, but the paranoid world view they all share remains the same, says Owen Matthews
The King of Christmas: A short story by Owen Matthews
The Christmas King steps slowly from his house and sniffs the evening’s chill. His tread is dainty, for all his…
‘It wasn’t the Russian people who poisoned Skripal, it was just a few guys’: Alexander Lebedev interviewed
Who wants to be a billionaire? Not, apparently, Alexander Lebedev, the self-described ‘Russian ex-oligarch’ who has tried billionaredom and found…
