China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine
At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced that his country was currently in…
One year on: how will the Ukraine war end?
One year into the war, where does Ukraine go from here?
Boris Bondarev: Why more Russians aren’t defecting
Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev on his decision to defect
Wasted energy: Putin’s plan to freeze Europe has failed
Putin’s plan to freeze Europe has failed
Voices in the wilderness: Russia’s exiled media
Russia’s exiled media should be protected, not shut down
The red line: Biden and Xi’s secret Ukraine talks revealed
Beijing’s secret role in the Ukraine war
Russian roulette: what ‘tactical’ nuclear war would mean
The evolution of ‘tactical’ nuclear war
What Zelensky has taken from his former TV career
Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the few leaders of modern times whose charisma, determination and sheer cojones can be said,…
Kremlin crack-up: who’s out to get Putin?
Inside the power struggle at the heart of Russia
Who really blew up the Kerch Bridge?
Who blew up the Kerch bridge? One of President Zelensky’s most senior advisers, Mikhailo Podolyak, has suggested that the Russians…
War has come home to Russia
Moscow A week of somewhat mixed messages from the Kremlin. One day Vladimir Putin opened Europe’s largest Ferris wheel…
Europe should welcome fleeing Russians
In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s surprise announcement of partial mobilisation on Wednesday, thousands of young Russian men decided that…
More mad than Vlad: Russia’s ultra-nationalist threat
Putin’s most dangerous opposition comes from Russia’s ultra-nationalists
Nothing is certain in Russia, where the past is constantly rewritten
Nothing is certain in a country where the past is constantly rewritten, says Owen Matthews
A Russian visa ban would delight Putin
Do you hate Russia, or do you hate Putin? That’s the central question behind a current debate about whether to…
Sanctions are working – whatever Putin says
Sanctions are working — whatever Russia says
How Russia is holding Ukraine’s wheat exports to ransom
Putin is holding Ukraine’s wheat exports to ransom
Cold Turkey: why is Erdogan resisting Nato’s expansion?
Why is Erdogan resisting Nato’s expansion?
The new White Russians: the fate of émigrés fleeing Putin
The fate of Russia’s émigrés
Cross to bear: can Russia ever atone for Putin’s sins?
Can Russia ever atone for Putin’s sins?
Turkey’s dilemma: whose side is Erdogan on?
Can Turkey’s President broker a peace deal?
My one-way ticket out of Moscow
Things fall apart. Moscow friends call to say that I have to urgently send my 19-year-old son out of Russia.…
Putin’s rage: the Russian President won’t be easy to topple
Despite western hopes, the Russian President won’t be easy to topple
Will western sanctions really hurt Putin?
Boris Johnson has announced that the UK will impose personal sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov…
Has Putin lost the plot?
Has the Russian President gone mad?
