Vladimir Putin
Tsar Of The Holy Land
For Vladimir Putin, Syria is as much a question of religion as of arms sales; in his eyes, Assad protects Syria’s ancient Christian communities
Russia’s Teetering Toughman
Ben Judah’s rich and thoughtful account of the Putin years charts a Russian political system continually manipulated by a wounded leader
A Pyrrhic Victory for Georgian Democracy
The opposition party Georgia Dream has won a convincing victory in Georgia’s parliamentary elections.
The Empire is Still Evil
Book review of Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West by Edward Lucas
Twelve More Years of Vladimir Putin? Nyet!
Both the Russian intelligentsia and the people have lost faith in their leader—but he won’t go quietly, whatever the voters’ verdict
Putin’s Chinese Whispers
Russia and China’s deep-running antagonism makes them awkward allies
Online Only: Back to the USSR
To its shame the international community has acquiesced in the Kremlin’s mafia-style state capitalism. This appeasement stifles any chance of democratic progress
Moscow Martyr
David Cameron’s forthcoming visit to the Kremlin should not just be another exercise in deferential “diplomacy”
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts