The once-great home of Immanuel Kant has become a post-Soviet dystopia, fortified by Putin — a time bomb waiting to explode

The irony of Lenin, Victor Sebestyan's biography reveals, is that he was profoundly bourgeois

For all Vladimir Putin’s military adventures, the Russian economy is now shrinking — far too small to pose a real threat to the West

"Putin revels in others’ weakness. A man with a facelift who poses bare-chested on horseback is not a well man"