Sergey Radchenko

What will Putin do about Biden’s parting gift to Ukraine?

18 November 2024 7:20 pm

At the very moment most people seem to have forgotten of his existence, President Biden has slowly but purposefully shuffled…

Why should Putin negotiate?

19 October 2024 4:30 pm

In just a few months we will mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The war has resulted…

What Nigel Farage gets wrong about the Ukraine war

25 June 2024 8:51 pm

‘We [the West] provoked this war [in Ukraine],’ Nigel Farage recently declared on BBC Panorama, blaming Putin’s invasion of the neighboring…

Tiananmen Square remade the modern world

4 June 2024 4:00 pm

Thirty-five years ago today, China’s leaders ordered tanks into Tiananmen Square to disperse a student encampment. The death toll was…

Hope for Russia has died with Navalny

17 February 2024 2:48 am

It was brave. It was foolhardy. It was almost unbelievable. After his near-fatal poisoning by the Russian Federal Security Service,…

Tucker Carlson failed Putin’s history class

9 February 2024 10:44 pm

They say that he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon. But, driven by vanity and unconstrained…

The reason Xi and Putin liked Henry Kissinger

6 December 2023 12:50 am

On Henry Kissinger’s passing, Xi Jinping published a letter, extolling this ‘old friend of China’ as a man of ‘outstanding strategic…

Zelensky is a serious bind

24 September 2023 7:02 pm

The recent spat between Kyiv and Warsaw over grain – with Ukraine suing Poland at the WTO – has come at…

This failed coup will be just the beginning

24 June 2023 6:50 pm

Yevgeny Prigozhin has just exposed the full extent of Vladimir Putin’s weakness. In less than 24 hours, the leader of…

Putin’s acolytes can smell blood

13 May 2023 5:00 pm

Yevgeny Prigozhin, standing in the darkness next to a row of bloodied dead bodies, was shouting obscenities. With his yellowish,…

It’s time to talk about Nato membership for Ukraine

4 February 2023 5:30 pm

There was a time when Ukraine’s accession to Nato was a fantasy. It wasn’t just that Ukraine was dismally poor,…

Why Putin won’t take Hitler’s way out

15 January 2023 9:30 pm

The last time Europe fought a major war, there was no shortage of planning. We knew what peace meant. Winston…

What will Putin do next?

18 December 2022 6:00 pm

If you were Putin, what would you do? Predicting your adversary’s future moves requires putting yourself in his shoes. As…

Putin's war has exacted a terrible toll on Ukraine

30 October 2022 5:30 pm

Putin badly miscalculated. The Russian army terribly underperformed. Kyiv has shown unexpected resilience in the face of what experts thought…

Daria Dugina has become a martyr for Putin

24 August 2022 8:51 pm

There was something menacing yet vaguely absurd about the Tuesday memorial service held to commemorate the life and fascist times…

The West is watching the war in Ukraine like it's sport

30 May 2022 7:44 pm

Every time I hear a politician speak of Munich, I suspect that something is amiss. Last week, President Zelensky accused…

Why Russia needs to be humiliated in Ukraine

15 May 2022 5:00 pm

As Putin’s war against Ukraine drags on, Russia now faces the very real prospect of defeat. There are still difficult…

Putin has revived the cruelty of the Soviet regime

19 March 2022 9:00 am

Soviet-style brutality lives again