Russia
Is There a New Cold War with Russia?
Edward Lucas and Mary Dejevsky, both leading commentators on Russia and eastern Europe, discuss the Georgian crisis and its implications for the West
Caucasus: Diary, August-September, 2008
‘It was days after the ceasefire had been signed and the facts on the ground went square against what President Nicolas Sarkozy of France had intended’
In a Dangerous World, the West Needs Leaders
‘The crisis in the Caucasus has undoubtedly ushered in a period of global insecurity’
Patriot, Poet and Prophet
The leading Western historian of Stalinism’s horrors first met Alexander Solzhenitsyn when the novelist was expelled from the USSR in 1974. Here he recalls his genius and his courage
Decline and Fall Guys
As Georgia licks its wounds, a morally dubious industry has sprung up to churn out books celebrating the end of American global hegemony
Men Behaving Badly
Russian attitudes to sexual harassment may shock us now, but it wasn’t that long ago that customs here were not so very different
There’s no Place Like Home for a Singer
Intimacy, authenticity and domescity combine to make for a great performance
Democrats v Autocrats
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
Love in a Snowy Climate
Human Love by Andreï Makine
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal