Russia
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
The devil comes calling
The sinister Sergeant Bertrand arrives in a ‘provincial, mediocre’ Russian town to wreak havoc in the lives of a couple mourning the loss of their son
Brute forces
The Wagner Group isn’t Russia’s only private army
The Wagner uprising has left Putin isolated
Both Vladimir Putin and the mercenary Wagner Group have been dramatically weakened by yesterday’s attempted coup. Wagner’s nominal leader, Yevgeny…
This failed coup will be just the beginning
Yevgeny Prigozhin has just exposed the full extent of Vladimir Putin’s weakness. In less than 24 hours, the leader of…
Prigozhin leaves Rostov
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, has left Rostov-on-Don and ended the armed insurrection against Vladimir Putin.…
Portrait of the Week
Home Boris Johnson, the former prime minister, was ritually buried by the House of Commons voting by 354 to seven…
Putin’s nuclear reshuffle is designed to antagonise Nato
Days before Nato leaders descend on Vilnius for the alliance’s annual summit next month, things will be afoot just across…
All quiet on the western front
Zoe Strimpel talks to the anti-Putin Russian artists who have been cancelled since the invasion of Ukraine
Baltic view
Lithuania’s Prime Minister on what a Ukrainian victory would look like
