Vladimir Putin has been proved right again as Western priorities shift from removing Assad to destroying Islamic State.
- Professor in Twentieth-Century European History, University of Warwick
Russia’s Syrian venture is a dramatic example of modern realpolitik which has taken the West completely by surprise.
Reports that Russia would use nuclear weapons if NATO continues to push into the Baltic states are misleading.and mischievous.
The Crimean crisis is sliding from bad to worse, not least for the inhabitants of what until a month ago was an idyllic peninsula waiting for the glory of springtime. As the ultra-right and neo-Nazi thuggery…
President Vladimir Putin has a shiny new toy, the Winter Olympics, and he wants to hold a party to show it off. His “friends” are jealous and either want to dash the present from his hands or refuse to…
Vladimir Putin gets a bad press outside Russia. From the cases of Alexander Litvinenko, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, or Pussy Riot to the sponsoring of laws against gay “propaganda”, he is usually cast in a dark…
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