Putin’s fractured world
The Russian president is using the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to divide the West and the Global South.
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The West is revealing its hand to Putin
Emmanuel Macron’s threats to send ground troops to Ukraine only exposes Europe’s deepening divisions over the war.
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Ukraine’s history war
Tanja Maljartschuk’s novel Forgottenness confronts Ukraine's long struggle for nationhood in the face of Russia’s “imperial oblivion”.
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Where does Ukraine go from here?
On the two-year anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, writers and historians reflect on the war.
Alexei Navalny’s fatal devotion to truth
The dissident’s death is another chapter in Russia’s descent into violence. Yet no state can survive on violence alone.
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The West underestimated Russia
There will be no total victory for Ukraine, but Kyiv’s allies can help halt the Russian advance.
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Navalny and Russia’s lost future
Will the dissident’s death galvanise the scattered Russian opposition – or mark the moment of their definitive defeat?
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Alexei Navalny, the man who defied Vladimir Putin
As an opposition politician and activist, Navalny was one of Vladimir Putin's most outspoken critics.
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The dissident is dead
Dividing global politics into camps of angels and demons is no longer fashionable.
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John Mearsheimer: “The Israel lobby is as powerful as ever”
The American international relations scholar on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and power competition in the Middle East.
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There were no winners in Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview
Though he dominated the exchange, the Russian president offered little insight and no new information.
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What to watch for in Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview
The ex-Financial Times editor, and the last Western journalist to interview the Russian president, on ethics and propaganda.
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If Donald Trump wins, he’ll control Europe’s gas
US liquefied natural gas exports kept the lights on when Europe stopped importing the fuel from Russia.
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Who is winning?
Parsing the narrative shifts in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Volodymyr Zelensky’s theatre of nightmares
As people flee the country and losses mount, supporting Ukraine’s war effort takes its toll.
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The slipperiness of ceasefire
Why the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
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Revealed: how the City of London keeps Putin’s oil flowing
The Russian war machine is being helped by British companies.
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Vladimir Putin has no regrets
The Russian president feels vindicated in his belief that he can outlast the West in Ukraine.
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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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Joseph Roth’s lessons for Putin’s Russia
A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…
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