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?
The western press is giving Putin what he wants
Is Putin playing with the western press?
The phoney war: what’s really going on between Boris and Putin
It suits both Boris and Putin to pretend that Russia may invade Ukraine
Haunted: the spectre of revolution is stalking Putin
The spectre of revolution is stalking Putin
Putin is more rational than Nato realises
The dangers of Nato’s Ukrainian policy
Russia syndrome: it’s easy to blame Putin for everything
It’s easy to blame Putin for everything
Putin's plan for Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s message was as clear — and familiar — as his method. The Kremlin has begun another major build-up of troops…
How Rome’s rubbish became a political problem
‘Excommunication,’ reads a stone plaque on the wall of the church of St Theodore in Rome, ‘and a fine of…
The mystery of Vladimir Putin’s mistresses
There’s an odd thing about 18-year old Luiza Rozova’s instagram feed. You can see photos of her breakfasts (sliced exotic…
Journey to the end of the world: the full horror of the Belgica’s Antarctic expedition
The epic story of the Antarctic voyage of the Belgica (1897-9) has all the ingredients of a truly glorious misadventure:…
Why sanctions against Putin and his allies don’t work
Sanctions against Putin and his allies don’t work
Putin and Biden need one another
Does Joe Biden think that Putin is a killer? asked ABC host George Stephanopoulos. ‘Mmm-hmm, I do,’ answered the President.…
The truth about Russia’s hidden Covid deaths
Putin’s hidden Covid deaths
Betrayal was a routine business for George Blake
Kim Philby once remarked to the journalist Murray Sayle that ‘to betray, you must first belong. I never belonged’. Kim,…
Protests for Navalny sweep Russia
The protests began in Vladivostok, on Russia’s Pacific coast, and spread Westwards across 85 cities across the country’s nine time…
Navalny and Putin: the next chapter
Navalny’s return to Russia is brave – and provocative
Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
How Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
Putin plans to make the West destroy itself
There’s only one person who’ll be genuinely pleased with the UK Intelligence and Security Committee’s Russia report, finally revealed on…
Vladimir Putin’s history fetish
Russia, the old joke goes, has long been a country with an unpredictable past. On September 22, 1939, for instance,…
