Russia
Is this the birth of a Nordic Nato?
In the past six weeks, Finland and Sweden’s security policies have changed more than they have over the past six…
Zelensky has snubbed Germany’s President
When Volodymyr Zelensky told the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier yesterday that he did not want to see him in Kyiv,…
Is Putin using chemical weapons in Ukraine?
In 1942, as Hitler’s forces swept through the Soviet Union, the Red Army went underground. Outside the city of Kerch…
Russia is trying to destroy Ukraine’s energy sector
We are seven weeks into the war and the level of destruction in Ukraine is mounting. Every single day we…
The Russian army is running out of options
So much had been written about the Russian armed forces’ modernisation and improvement over the last decade that that it…
Boris and Scholz parade the new Europe
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed Europe forever. That was the argument that Boris Johnson made on Friday when he…
Portrait of the week: Covid fines, cancelled flights and sunflower oil shortages
Home Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business spokesman, said that the government should be preparing for energy rationing, but Grant Shapps, the…
Will put you in mind of Lost in Translation: Compartment No. 6 reviewed
Compartment No. 6 is set aboard a long train journey across Russia, a country we don’t hear much of these…
The Russians aren’t the first to rewrite history
Historians in Russia have a long and craven record, now going back centuries, of being economical with the truth about…
Europe’s last dictator: Lukashenko’s fate depends on Ukraine
The fate of Lukashenko depends on Ukraine
Putin’s war is a disaster for Russia
Strasbourg Europhobes will never have a better argument against European integration than the seat of the European parliament in…
Can Imran Khan cling on to power in Pakistan?
Can Imran Khan cling on to power in Pakistan?
Spies shouldn’t be political
Now that events in Ukraine are restoring a sense of proportion about the difference between aggressive autocracies and free countries,…
Russia ‘realists’ have very little to say about evil
‘Every way of a man is right in his own eyes’, the Book of Proverbs says: it makes us feel…
The view from Ukraine: world war three has already started
I saw the first Russian bombs land from my balcony in Chernivtsi. They hit a military depot 50 miles away…
Viktor Orbán is no friend of the West
Viktor Orbán‘s victory speech in Budapest on Sunday night took a curious turn. Speaking after a fourth landslide win, he…
Russia’s ‘denazification’ project is only just beginning
Truth, infamously, is the first casualty of war. But the truth, in modern Russia, was critically wounded before it got…
The West is powerless in the face of Russian war crimes
‘Our home is our heart,’ a video posted by a couple from the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel begins, showing them…
Why Hungary's opposition failed
Viktor Orbán has now spent a total of 16 years as Hungary’s Prime Minister but he has not lost his hunger…
Are sanctions working?
When allied military operations go well or badly, we very quickly hear about them. But what about sanctions? It is…
Russian cruelty has been laid bare
It was 2 a.m. when Russian gunmen broke in and took away 21-year-old Milana Ozdoyeva. When Sara, her three-year-old daughter,…
No. 10 prepares decades-long energy plan
The government’s delayed energy strategy is finally due to be released this week. The Prime Minister is due to unveil…
Biden’s war: does he know what he’s doing?
Is Biden’s approach to the war more calculating than it seems?
How much of a litre of fuel is now tax?
Common knowledge Tensions in the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Jamaica led some to speculate that…
Dmitry Firtash wants to help with the war effort – but can we trust him?
Dmitry Firtash wants to help with the war effort — but can we trust him?
