The age of danger
Order is breaking down as the great powers take sides in multiple wars.
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Discover the latest New Statesman content on Russia, exploring the politics, culture and economy of the nation. Insightful coverage and analysis of the war in Ukraine and Putin’s presidency.
The German SPD’s foolish attachment to Putin’s Russia
Olaf Scholz’s centre-left party refuses to abandon its nostalgic ties to Moscow – and is paying a heavy political price.
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Wagner’s next act in Africa
How Vladimir Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin’s son have rebranded the mercenary group in the Sahel.
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How Swan Lake became a cultural phenomenon
Tchaikovsky’s celebrated ballet is an aesthetic movement in the West – but in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, it has become a…
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Kyiv’s recurring grief
Travelling through Ukraine, it’s clear that the country cannot escape its past.
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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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