Vladimir Putin
Crime and cover-up — a very Russian tale
The way to think about Russia, Bill Browder told me in Moscow in 2004, using a comparison he recycles in…
High life
The good news is that a Greek suppository is about to relieve the EU’s economic constipation. The bad is that…
The new Cold War
An official end to the Cold War was declared at a summit between President George H. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev…
Bear market
The West will have to drop sanctions on Russia – or face another global economic crash
World disorder
The old cliché that ‘nothing happens in August’ has again been brutally disproved. From the centenary of the outbreak of…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, told Parliament that President Vladimir Putin of Russia should end his country’s support for…
What to do about Putin
Sanctions won’t help. One thing might
Empire of deceit
Putin’s answer to the destruction of Flight MH17 has been more propaganda. In Russia, at least, it seems to be working
Diary
My trips to meet Russians in Russia these days are a little less controversial than my encounter with them in…
Diary
I feel an intense antipathy for Vladimir Putin. No one on the international scene has aroused in me such dislike…
Will there be war in Ukraine?
Further Russian military intervention would be a disaster. But Putin might have to do it anyway
Putin’s poison pill
Losing Crimea will be the making of Ukraine. And gaining it might well destroy the Russian president
Putin’s winning hand
Russia is making the West look posturing, weak and divided
Cicero on Putin
Last September Russian President Vladimir Putin warned against a ‘unipolar’ world, saying that the national revival of Russia was in…
Crimean notebook
Vladimir Putin still swears that there are no Russian troops in Crimea, so their mission is to say as little…
A reminder of the UK energy gap as Putin prepares to put another knot in his pipeline
To have written last month that the headline ‘Kiev in flames’ looked like a black swan on the economic horizon…
Europe’s nightmare neighbour
Putin has now broken the post-Cold War consensus for good. But Russia may not enjoy the results
Letters
Caution over wind Sir: While the broadcast media have assailed their audiences with simplistic yet blanket coverage of the floods…
Sochi’s spotlight reveals the rottenness at the heart of the Russian body politic
Imagine if the BBC’s excitable commentators had been asked to cover the building of Sochi’s facilities, rather than the Winter…
New York notebook
Bard College in upstate New York, where I teach in the spring semester, is an interesting institution, once better known…
Putin’s pink peril
Russia’s thuggish President has picked on the wrong minority
Winter warmers
James Cook’s third voyage as an English captain ended in disaster, stabbed to death and disembowelled by a pack of…
Long life
The days may be long gone when a husband would pretend to commit adultery in a Brighton hotel so as…
