The truth about Russia’s rotten economy: “We’re going back to the 1980s”
The Russian economist Sergei Guriev encourages inflation-hit Western economies to hold their nerve against Putin.
ByVladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia and has been the country’s leader, with an interlude as prime minister, for more than 22 years. Putin was born in 1952, studied law at Leningrad State University and served for 15 years as a KGB officer before becoming a politician in 1991.
Why the Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova sets an example for the West
Ovsyannikova is one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians standing up to Vladimir Putin despite immense personal risk.
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The EU’s energy crisis is emboldening the European far right
Six months into the Ukraine war, the shock that temporarily banished pro-Russian views from European politics is wearing off.
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Russia is still underestimating Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has become one of attrition – it’s Vladimir Putin’s only alternative to acknowledging defeat.
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Volodymyr Zelensky is wrong to ask the West to ban Russian tourists
There is a Russia that is not Putin. The West should seek to build bridges with these Russians, not cut…
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We need to take back control of the energy industry – here’s how
Public ownership is the only sensible response to surging energy prices, insecure supply and climate crisis.
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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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The perils of autocracy
Poor policies, once adopted, are difficult to abandon, as the leaders of Russia and China are demonstrating.
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A flurry of alarm over Kosovo reveals underlying tensions
A dispute over car number plates between Serbia and Kosovo has been defused but not resolved.
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How Vladimir Putin views the world
Russian authoritarianism has added an extra dimension to its suppression of free speech: a sinister playfulness with fact and opinion.
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Russia counterattacks in its economic war with the West
Moscow is exploiting the only significant leverage it has over European economies: energy.
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A fatal attraction
Thomas Mann, German identity and the romantic allure of Russia.
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How the Kremlin is weaponising children for its propaganda
Russia uses emotional pictures of children to legitimise its war on Ukraine, and targets children themselves with disinformation.
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How Putin’s aggression has nurtured Germany’s climate ambitions
A year ago Germany suffered terrible floods and the new government pledged climate action. It has not wavered.
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Which countries could Putin try to ‘protect’ next?
The Kremlin has used the pretext of defending Russian speakers to threaten former Soviet states.
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Georgia is now a hub for Russian opposition in exile
Now that open dissent in Russia is almost impossible, dissidents have fled to its neighbour – with uncertain consequence.
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Why the Russian military should be very worried
As Ukraine targets ammunition depots, Putin’s forces may be approaching a crisis point.
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Driving through Ukraine, I am confronted by the end of the world
Jews who were once bombed by the Nazis now face assault by the Russians. They are numb with grief.
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Can Ukraine win the war with Russia?
As Russia takes the city of Lysychansk, Ukraine needs to develop momentum with its better, Western-sourced weapons.
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The banality of Vladimir Putin
A new biography of the Russian president details the extraordinary rise of an unremarkable man who learned how to exercise…
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