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
The Russian enigma
Nothing is certain in a country where the past is constantly rewritten, says Owen Matthews
A Russian visa ban would delight Putin
Do you hate Russia, or do you hate Putin? That’s the central question behind a current debate about whether to…
Putin’s grand illusions
Sanctions are working — whatever Russia says
Against the grain
Putin is holding Ukraine’s wheat exports to ransom
Cold Turkey
Why is Erdogan resisting Nato’s expansion?
Putin’s exodus
The fate of Russia’s émigrés
Cross to bear
Can Russia ever atone for Putin’s sins?
The middleman
Can Turkey’s President broker a peace deal?
Moscow Notebook
Things fall apart. Moscow friends call to say that I have to urgently send my 19-year-old son out of Russia.…
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?
