Why Ukraine’s designs on Crimea could split the West
Some allies fear threatening to retake the peninsula could provoke a nuclear attack.
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Vladimir Putin has failed to learn Stalin’s lessons
The Russian president wants his country to be feared and respected, but the failures of his military are increasingly clear.
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What the Crimea airbase attack means for the war in Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to recover the Russian-annexed peninsula as Ukrainian forces ready their counteroffensive.
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Alexei Navalny’s chief of staff: “Putinism will now come to an end much sooner”
Leonid Volkov on how the war in Ukraine has given Russia’s opposition a new chance to shape the country’s future.
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Russia’s Black Sea blockade is a problem for the whole world
The siege of Ukraine’s ports is causing global food shortages.
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Russia-Ukraine war: an invasion 30 years in the making
For Vladimir Putin, the fall of the Soviet Union was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”.
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Putin has substituted his own interests for those of the Russian state
His presidency may have started as a campaign to restore Russia’s great power status, but it has devolved into one…
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Putin confronts Ukraine and the West with a terrible choice
In an angry televised speech, the Russian president presented himself as a peacekeeper but sounded like a leader preparing for…
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