Russia

The horrors of the Eastern Front

30 March 2024 9:00 am

Nick Lloyd reinforces Churchill’s sentiment that the first world war in the East was ‘one of the most frightful misfortunes to befall mankind’

Meet the Russians in Serbia who voted against Putin

18 March 2024 4:47 am

Today, Russians in Serbia are heading to the polls to cast their vote and protest against what many see as…

Russia will not attack Nato

9 March 2024 5:00 pm

There is a lot of war fever about. In January, Grant Shapps, Britain’s tiggerish defence secretary, said the UK was…

Why Latvia is expelling its Russian speakers

2 March 2024 9:00 am

Riga, Latvia At the age of 74, Inessa Novikova, who is ethnically Russian, was told she had to learn Latvian…

A free spirit: Clairmont, by Lesley McDowell, reviewed

2 March 2024 9:00 am

Even by the Villa Diodati’s standards, Claire Clairmont was unconventional, seducing Byron when she was 18, and giving birth to their child after a possible affair with Shelley

Would I die for Britain? No thanks

27 January 2024 6:52 pm

The West’s military posture has moved from ‘thick’ to ‘suicidal’. The recent speech of General Sir Patrick Sanders, the head…

Is this where world war three starts?

4 November 2023 9:00 am

  Daugavpils   You can tell quite a bit about a place by the number of national flags on display.…

Europe needs to step up on Ukraine

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Vasyl, a burly, tattooed infantry commander who lost a leg to a Russian mine on the eastern front, sits swinging…

Ukraine’s fight has been eclipsed by the ‘Other War’

21 October 2023 9:00 am

The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide ‘proof of…

The full English: how to fall in love with this country

14 October 2023 9:00 am

A beginner’s guide to this country

High life

7 October 2023 9:00 am

Rising star

30 September 2023 9:00 am

The second volume of Knausgaard’s trilogy serves as a prequel to the first, tracing the origins of Norway’s ominous new celestial body