The 2022 peace deal would have left Ukraine completely at Vladimir Putin’s mercy.
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
The Belarus president has been elected to serve a seventh term of office with 87% of the vote.
Recent messages coming out of Moscow have been tough, but the Russian president may be hoping to use rhetoric to encourage disunity within Nato.
The constant jockeying for power among Putin’s subordinates serves the Russian president’s purpose.
Many western governments have called Putin’s election ‘illegitimate’. Now they need to adjust their diplomatic relations accordingly.
Most of Vladimir Putin’s opponents are either dead, in jail or in exile. But it might just be ordinary people who can take over the battle for democracy in Russia.
Opposing the Russian president appears as dangerous in today’s Russia as back in the days of the Stalin purges and show trials.
What started as a short military operation will now take years and years. Changing its tune is all in a day’s work for the Kremlin.
If the west had paid more attention to the Russian invasion of Crimea, it may have avoided a Ukraine war.
Pavlovsky became the ultimate insider – until he fell out with the boss he had helped make all-powerful.
Ukrainians who have turned coat and are working for the Russians in occupied regions are being targeted for assassination.
Russia is burning off and wasting millions of pounds of gas rather than supply it to Europe. Here’s why.
The Ukraine war has prompted thousands of Russian Jews to flee the country, an expert investigates why.
The road to EU membership is usually a long process, sometimes taking decades.
A small piece of Russian territory on the Baltic coast has become the focus of heightened tensions on Nato’s fringe.
A new CNN documentary about jailed opposition figurehead Aleksei Navalny offers insights into Putin’s challengers.
Did Russian intelligence mislead Putin about Ukraine’s capabilities or did they just tell him what he wanted to hear?
The death of ‘glasnost’ and the return to the oppression of Soviet Russia.
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