Lisa Haseldine

Will Boris Nadezhdin be allowed to run for president against Putin?

6 February 2024 5:00 pm

Will the anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin be allowed to run against Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency? That’s the question…

Are Germans turning against the AfD?

16 January 2024 3:21 am

After months of steadily climbing in the polls, could this be the moment the bubble bursts for the right-wing party,…

Even in the Arctic Circle, Navalny remains uncowed

12 January 2024 3:15 am

Alexei Navalny had a brutal December. At the start of the month the Putin critic abruptly disappeared from his prison…

Russia’s curious reaction to Britain’s hacking allegations

8 December 2023 4:02 am

That Russia’s security services have been targeting British politicians and other high-profile figures won’t come as a surprise. But the…

Is Russia trying to flood Finland with migrants?

22 November 2023 7:00 pm

Against the background of the war in Ukraine, a diplomatic row is brewing between Russia and Finland. Last week, Finland…

Cameron’s Ukraine trip provides a welcome boost for Zelensky

17 November 2023 1:30 am

Just days after returning to government as Lord Cameron, the former prime minister and new Foreign Secretary has made his…

Why Putin thinks war with Ukraine is like the Israel-Palestine conflict

1 November 2023 4:05 am

Who is to blame for the shocking pogrom in the Dagestani city of Makhachkala, where a mob of hundreds stormed the…

Why Putin hosted Hamas at the Kremlin

27 October 2023 10:00 pm

Since Hamas’s attack on Israel nearly three weeks ago, Vladimir Putin has been torn between who to back. It took the…

Putin will be hoping for gifts from Xi in Beijing

18 October 2023 2:11 am

In the early hours of this morning, Vladimir Putin touched down in Beijing to attend the third forum of the…

Juncker dismisses ‘corrupt’ Ukraine joining EU in near future

6 October 2023 2:22 am

Just days after Ukraine’s President Zelensky declared his intention to start EU membership negotiations by the end of this year,…

How a pro-Russia party triumphed in Slovakia’s election

2 October 2023 12:53 am

The staunchly pro-Russian Robert Fico is back in power for a third time in Slovakia. Fico’s Smer party clinched at least…

The West and Russia are at war, says Sergei Lavrov

25 September 2023 10:42 pm

The United States and Britain are at war with Russia. So said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a…

Olaf Scholz’s failing coalition is leaking support to the AfD

24 September 2023 5:00 pm

Germans are increasingly fed up with their hapless chancellor Olaf Scholz and his traffic light coalition. Just a quarter of…

What Prigozhin’s clandestine funeral says about the Kremlin

30 August 2023 5:01 am

For the past week, the arrangements for Yevgeny Prigozhin’s funeral have been shrouded in secrecy. Now it has been confirmed…

Ukraine steps up its drone warfare against Crimea

25 August 2023 11:56 pm

In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine launched 42 unmanned drones at the annexed territory of Crimea, the Russian…

How Russia’s media reacted to the Prigozhin plane crash

24 August 2023 11:47 pm

After Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted march on Moscow at the end of June, the Wagner Group leader became a divisive figure…

Yevgeny Prigozhin reported dead in plane crash

24 August 2023 4:44 am

From the moment Yevgeny Prigozhin aborted his march on Moscow it was a question of when and how – not…

Putin tries to turn Africa against the West

23 August 2023 10:58 pm

After Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Brics global summit in South Africa, there can be no doubt that the Russian…

From ABC to AK-47: Russia’s new wartime curriculum

19 August 2023 9:00 am

The Ukraine conflict has spread to Russia’s classrooms

Russian military chief lets slip the cost of invasion

7 August 2023 1:59 am

When it comes to disclosing the true cost of the war in Ukraine for Russia, the Kremlin has rarely, if…

The drone attacks on Moscow are only just beginning

1 August 2023 11:28 pm

A drone has hit a tower in Moscow’s financial district – just two days after the building was targeted in another attack. In…

Zelensky’s drone warning to Russians

31 July 2023 9:16 pm

Hours after Moscow was once again attacked by unmanned drones in the early hours of Sunday, Volodymyr Zelensky has declared…

Drones strike Moscow in fifth attack since May

24 July 2023 5:45 pm

For the fifth time in three months, Moscow has once again been targeted by drones. In what is fast becoming…

Prigozhin reappears for first time since failed Wagner coup

21 July 2023 12:29 am

Nearly four weeks on from his failed coup, Evgeniy Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner group, has finally resurfaced in public. A video published…