Russia
Is this where world war three starts?
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
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’
The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide ‘proof of…
The full English
A beginner’s guide to this country
Rising star
The second volume of Knausgaard’s trilogy serves as a prequel to the first, tracing the origins of Norway’s ominous new celestial body
America first
The US will decide Ukraine’s fate
Should all western businesses follow Heineken out of Russia?
The news that Heineken, the Dutch brewer, has sold its business in Russia to a local buyer for a token…
Textbook warfare
The Ukraine conflict has spread to Russia’s classrooms
Russian military chief lets slip the cost of invasion
When it comes to disclosing the true cost of the war in Ukraine for Russia, the Kremlin has rarely, if…
Attack of the drones
War is coming home to Moscow
Swarm troopers
Inside Ukraine’s drone army
The perils of permissiveness
The erotic adventures of a teenager who finally meets her match became a succès de scandale in 1920, and will still raise eyebrows today
Bold, brave and determined
Andrew Harding describes the hastily assembled ‘Dad’s Army’ – and formidable babushka – who sensationally resisted the Russian advance on Voznesensk last year
‘A figure that makes the country cry out’
Will mounting casualties change the debate in Ukraine?
The unlikely rise of Germany’s defence minister
An unlikely political star has risen in Germany. Boris Pistorius, a 63-year-old father of two is a career politician and,…
Conflicted
Why Putin still needs Wagner
