Putin is increasingly losing touch with reality
Trailed as an historic address to the nation following the weekend’s Wagner rebellion, Vladimir Putin’s short speech on Monday night was instead an…
Prigozhin offered a terrifying glimpse into Russia’s future
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion against the Russian military and political leadership may have stopped some 200 km short of Moscow, but…
How Russia became obsessed with fake news
On 1 July, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, known as the ‘Butcher of Mariupol’, delivered a statement about recent attacks on apartment…
Women trouble: soldiers’ wives and mothers are turning on Putin
Soldiers’ wives and mothers are turning on Putin
Why more and more Russians are backing the war
Why Russian support for the war will keep growing
Who poisoned Roman Abramovich?
Russia is now 33 days into a war it expected would last 72 hours. Given the relative failure of the…
What TV is telling Russians – and why they believe it
What Russians watch — and believe
Putin's Kremlin is obsessed with world war two
Putin’s claim that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was intended to ‘denazify’ the country looked absurd when he made it…
Is Russia ready for life after Putin?
When Russians headed to the polls last week, the Duma election results were never in doubt: Putin’s United Russiaparty won…
The Kremlin's plan to destabilise the West
On Sunday, Russia releasedits new National Security Strategy. In many ways, it picked up from where the 2015 version left…
The Belarus hijacking reveals the West's complacency
On Sunday evening an act of appalling state kidnapping took place over the skies of Europe. Four alleged KGB officers…
